Shattered heart

Fate has decreed

That you will walk this way silently

Under the shadows of trees

Along pathways of soggy leaves

Knowing that only the unseen

Sees fully

The mysteries and pain buried

Within your heart

Obscured under the weight of projections

Others place upon you

A longing soul

So far from home

Whose width and depth and breadth

They could never fully know

So often forced to walk apart

And negotiate the wilderness

Of her shattered heart

Alone