time is supposed to heal all wounds

right?

then how come my pain

doesn’t work like that?

even though

i am completely

and irrevocably

in love,

my past still haunts me

and reminds me

of the shattered glass

from long ago.

i don’t think new love

is supposed to heal your old broken heart.

i believe in a multiverse heart theory..

where my new heart is full of love

and continues to remain unbroken

but my old heart,

the one from my past,

is still missing some pieces

or hurts when i think about love lost

and i don’t know if those broken pieces

will ever be mended.

and maybe that’s okay,

because to feel pain is human

and it’s humbling to be reminded

of someone lost a long time ago.

they will forever remain a memory,

a shadow,

an incomplete whole;

and nothing will change that,

not even my shiny new heart.