First Aid

First Aid

Once I needed band-aids
for my heart
and searched everywhere
for the doctor in charge of ego-repair.

The damage was too great -
no one can bandage a broken heart.
It has to heal from the inside,
and only time will heal it.

Although time
feels like the enemy,
you eventually learn to trust it.

You can't use
other people as
first-aid cream either.
They usually want your heart
for their own purposes,
and broken hearts
aren't much good to anyone.
Broken hearts just get used
and abused even further.

Broken hearts
are so busy looking
for the fixer-upper of hearts,
they don't notice what they really need.

Which is time. Only time.