I gave you a piece of my heart
Planning for you to wear it proudly on a chain around your neck
Brag about it to your friends
But you tucked it away responsibly in your desk for safe keeping
Time passed and other things were squirreled away in that same desk
A collection of useful and micellaneous objects
Covering up that precious piece of heart
Forgotten
More time passed and though I'd not forgotten about you
I had given up trying to ensure that you would not forget about me
Finding comfort in the belief that maybe one day the universe would reunite us
While accepting that it may not
A few years later you move out of your apartment
Cleaning out your desk, you find the heart
Dusty and rolled in pencil shavings you don't recognize it at first
But when you do your breath catches and you sit hard on the bed pondering
You're older now and you wonder if you would have done things differently
You wonder where I am and how I'm doing
You wonder if you deserved this heart, if you earned it
You remember I told you I loved you the time I saw you last
And, I won't forget, you responded, "I love you too."
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