Half-Healed Hearts

(F) You left your hoodie

On the back of my chair

Still smells like summer

And your cigarette hair

(M) I keep rehearsing

All the things I won’t say

Then type and delete them

Three hundred times a day

(F) You said

“It’s fine”

But your hands were shaking

(M) You said

“I’m tired”

But my chest was breaking

(Both) We keep pretending

We’re past pretending

(M) We’re just half-healed hearts

Held together by habit

(F) Still tracing old scars

Like we almost had it

(Both) If letting go means

We both fall apart

Then hold me like

We’re half-healed hearts

(M) Just stay tonight

(F) Just stay

(Both) with our half-healed hearts

(M) I kept your bracelet

In the crack of my dash

Talk to the silence

When I’m stuck in the past

(F) I stalk your updates

Like they’re breaking news

Tiny blue circles

Of everything I lose

(M) You say

“I’m good”

But your eyes look hollow

(F) I say

“I’m done”

But my words don’t follow

(Both) We say “we’re friends”

And the lie feels shallow

(M) We’re just half-healed hearts

Held together by habit

(F) Still tracing old scars

Like we almost had it

(Both) If letting go means

We both fall apart

Then hold me like

We’re half-healed hearts

(M) Just stay tonight

(F) Just stay

(Both) with our half-healed hearts

(F) What if we’re better

(M) What if we’re worse

(F) If this is a blessing

(M) Or some kind of curse

(Both) I’d rather be ruined

Than live in reverse

(M) We’re just half-healed hearts

Learning how to be honest

(F) Still scared of the dark

But we step into it

(Both) If growing up means

We don’t get a restart

Then love me with

Your half-healed heart

(M) Just one more try

(F) Just one

(Both) from our half-healed hearts