Don’t Break Your Heart

You claim heartbroken you’ve been left

By circumstances or other people, you’ve been bereft

Of optimism in your life many times before

You have almost stopped keeping score..

But have you realized how you could be

Breaking your own heart repeatedly?

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You develop attachment when you know

That you should stay neutral, you let your expectations grow

You invest more of yourself than desirable

You don’t set boundaries, thus you enable

Others to cross the lines that only you can see

All these lead to heartbreak invariably..

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Heartbreak is not just something to wax poetic about

It’s an emotional injury that you could do without

So, before the world gets a chance to tear you apart

Don’t go around breaking your own heart..