NaPoWriMo day 10, poem 11/30. Today's prompt is unloving which is just too awesome. Inspired slightly by Once Upon a Time's Snow and Cora.
Splinter Heart
Hand me the scalpel
and I will cut you out.
I slit myself collar
to navel and set
organs on the table.
You are not
in my liver or small
intestine but I deflate
my lungs, squeeze out
the breath you breathed
into me mouth to mouth.
My uterus looks
like a heart
and is red with you
so I leave it on the floor.
It's the real heart
that's the problem.
I must edge my blade
around the splinter of you,
avoid the good
I don't want to spill.
Can I unlove you
and live on? One wrong cut
and I lose all of me,
crumple to the floor,
bile in my chest and ash
in my hands.
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