Heartbroken

Heartbroken

Cobblestones

Worn smooth by the trample

Of countless feet

Unaware of the gradual

Erosion as individual

Pieces

Fuse together

Under pressure

Crumbling when powdered dry

Washed and rutted

Weathered by the storm

Burnished by the constancy

Of wear,

Heavy load bearing

The tread of blind souls

Restrained by emotional

Encumbrance

Unaware of the impact

The trammel of their journey

Imparts

With every step

Communicating ignorance

Leading them ever on

Blundering forward

Kicking loose stones

Up blind alleys

Fielding obstruction

With little regard

For consequence

As the downtrodden

Screed begins to

Slip and slide

Sundered beneath a bare-faced

Encrusted surface

Subsiding, erupting

Shifting in relation

To deeply felt

Tectonic shocks

Slowly forcing every

Finely woven crack

Apart

Until the division proves

Too much to contain

And broken stones

Are thrown up high

Into stifled air

As the soft hearts of innocents

Are engorged

In a fallout

Of bloodied proportion