Heartbroken

Pain and pressure rail in my chest.
Blood pressure climbing to the sky.
Tears welling up in my hellish agony...
Dear God, please just let me die!

Thoughts racing with every heartbeat.
Body going numb from the heavy shock.
Muscles tightening in paralysis--
I may not survive another night like this.

What you have told me has broken me so.
You destroyed my heart, mind, and soul.
My body is now being broken on the wheel--
never to rise again and know what's real.

Two aspirin and two nitros abate the pain...
but my tears still flow like hot salted rain.
The storm is passing, and the dawn is here--
sadly, however, I feel no warmth or cheer.

I'll pick up the pieces later in the day.
How long it will take, I really can't say.
Another heartbreak has nearly meant my death.
Another heartbreak may mean my final breath.

--RKJ