Monday 4 January 2010

Broken-Heart Transfusion


When will the NHS provide broken-heart transfusion?
Are there any volunteers?
Would you consider being a living-donor?

Your heart will be transfused,
To mend a broken one.
Imagine it as broken-heart transplantation.

The nurses afterwards,
Will give you a nice cup of tea,
And a biscuit -
Two if you like -
As a "thank you" for volunteering,
To transfuse your heart with a broken one.

And let's remember,
Some altruistic souls already,
Donate their blood, bone-marrow,
Or even a kidney!
So I'm sure there are benevolent heart-givers -
Healers, really,
Out there, somewhere,
Ready,
For the laying-on of hearts.

But here's a problem:
Often, the ones who would give their heart most gladly,
Are,
The most vulnerable to having their heart injured - even destroyed.

Such openness profiles them,
As the most likely candidates,
To be hurt, used,
Then rejected,
Or otherwise tossed aside,
By careless or cavalier,
Embittered or predatory,
Heart-breakers.
Only truly compatible,
Only with themselves.

Thus,
Many of the broken-hearted,
Will lock their love in cold-storage - fearful,
And hide themselves away,
As their own heart self-rejects,
And tumbles and ricochets the downward spiral, so harmful -
Feeling at home in the twisted forms and patterns,
Of negative familiarity,
Masquerading as self-preservation,
Also known as,
"Better the devil you know."

I wish the serial heart-breakers,
Would witness their damage,
And have a care,
So maybe they could take as much pleasure,
In nail-breaking instead!

Breaking people's nails:
No loving-souls damaged;
Infinitely less pain inflicted;
And,
So much easier to remedy.
After all,
To heal the broken-hearted,
May take more than a lifetime,
To heal the broken-nailed?
A couple of days.