The Darkened Heart

“The Darkened Heart”

(Tom Entrican – 03/22/2023)

 

No one can explain to me, why it reigns supreme

Or ever tell us why it always brings us so much pain

What makes it go about this way, laying out its schemes?

Despite the blood and tears from other hearts it has slain

 

What places it before the eye, for beauty that it sees

It cannot whisper like the lip, yet yields a blade so sharp

Slicing through this world bringing loved ones to their knees

Trashing those who dared to love, behold the darkened heart

 

Spouse or friend, perhaps the child, to him it matters not

As long as it can have its fun, the heart just will not see

A victim or the perpetrator all twisted like a knot

And feigns a sigh now and then, if you’re willing to believe

 

It sails across the waters for it never has enough

Comfort never slows it, for it has learned the art

Even if she tamps it down, it will always calls her bluff

And so it tears asunder, the loveless darkened heart

 

In time it slows bewildered, why everyone is gone

Why is there no light here in the world it’s torn apart?

Can anyone defend the scars, the pain that it has spawned?

When you stand before the Lord will He tell you to depart?

 

Remember when it hurts someone it just reflects on you

For all that we have learned, still in madness throw the dart

And only thought can bring it there, the things we let it do

We mastered how to keep the light from the darkened heart