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Bubble Wrapped Heart

Read when being vulnerable seems more painful than keeping your guard up.

By Cierra RobinsonPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Photo by Stefan Schweihofer

You’ve been stuffed down like packing peanuts in a cardboard box

Unspoken emotions clogging your windpipes like hair falling out when brushing and fear of a messy sink

forces you to push your curls down the drain quickly to be dealt with

later

But later never comes...and you know this clearly at 41

How could they just bubble wrap your lungs

They called you glass before you could grasp

the powers your own voice had

So you communicated in sighs heavy enough to crush your own heart

Started and stopped

Attempted to get started then stopped

Every time you tried to talk... like a car without enough power to start you get all choked up

So you bubble wrapped your heart

And shipped yourself off

I know you're fragile

You showed me better than you could tell me that

It’s always been harder to reveal yourself

Because people like to play around with hearts and pop

Pop, pop, you like bubbles and the sound of your heart breaking through

your rib cage is too much to stomach

So you shoot the butterflies in your stomach with “bad” attitude and doubts

And their wings stop fluttering before they even so much as think about

giving you that rush

And the flush in your face that makes you shy to say that you love

when I call your soul beautiful

So ashamed that you hadn’t seen it first

But there is never any shame in your reflection

I’m just your reflection

Reflecting back to you your own truth

Sometimes you heal most thoroughly by allowing yourself to be loved

by someone who doesn’t need to pop bubble wrap right away

I’ll cut it off and lay it aside

I’ll spend my time wrapping your heart in gauze and gentle love

until you can trust that my lips are bubble wrapped kisses

Stamped fragile with a destination to the door of your open heart

only you can sign for

I want to unbox you

Unwrap your pain

Paste the pieces of your heart back together again if that's what it takes

I’ll sign up for a subscription, forget annually

I’ll subscribe for a lifetime

I figure it could go both ways

We could remove our bubble wrap together

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About the Creator

Cierra Robinson

I'm a mental-spiritual health advocate. Poetry & writing saved my life & are non-negotiables. Remember, unpack your soul to declutter your heart & reveal the light you've always housed within.

Instagram: @cr_marshall_

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