pieces of glass

there's a piece of glass stuck in my heel,

the wound there was has long sealed,

for 7 months i walked on glass,

for the final month; thinking it'd be my last,

I spent a year picking up the pieces,

days and months of smoothing creases,

on my heel I plucked those little shards,

now all I have are feet quite scarred,

yet there was one piece quite so stubborn,

to stay in it's place & ground it's position,

so there it left as I continued to walk,

thinking that the hurt would stop,

But no the pain never did leave,

until present day did I perceive,

pretense is no longer a game I play,

I will get you out of my heart someday,

for now you remain as a glass in a heel,

until I learn to remove the emotions I feel.

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* references to Achilles's heel which means somebody's weakness.

hence the glass stuck in my heel is somebody who's found/or is my weakness.