Broken Heart

Broken Heart

You should mend it.
It is yours, after all.
I am happy now.
I chose right.
What we had was wonderful
extraordinary
amazing.
I treasure that long-ago time.
But you know
things were not right.
 Not really.
Otherwise, we would be together.
The hurt is deep.
I see that.
I was hurt too.
Some of the hurt remains in a corner--
somewhere--
locked away in a box
shut with a golden key.

Marsha Salerno