My heart is breaking

I hold back tears

Afraid to let them flow

Let them gush down my checks

Like waterfalls

But my heart is breaking

Slowly being twisted

Cracking under pressure

I have lost control

Drifting towards unfamiliar ground

Filled with landmines

Pressured ground

I cannot step

Out of fear

For cracking these eggshells

That reside between us now

Every single step

A calculated move now

No freedom to love you

We both in shackles

Being strangled

Our hearts breaking

We are suffocating

Air leaving our bodies

Organs failing

The first to go is the heart

We have been claiming to share

It's breaking into two pieces

Splitting in two

Both pieces drifting apart

How did we get here

To this moment

Where we both are crying

Slowly dying

Because we are losing sight

Of each other as one being

I hold back tears now

I fear to drown

For I know I will suffocate

In my own tears

Mourning your departure

From my side and sight

Release me from this prison

I call my heart

If you will be apart from me

I would rather be blind

So I have no sense of this distance

That promises to take you

Take my heart with too

For if it stays pumping blood

Giving me life

I will fail to hold back the tears

Because I know my heart

Will send out signals

Waiting for yours to bounce them

Back so it can know you are close

I hold back tears

That eagerly await release

So they can taste freedom

Run wild

Rampage and carnage

I foresee  if they are set free

Mostly my own destruction

For I know I will die of heartache

If I let you go

And I will drown if my tears

Are set free