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Heather's avatar

Heartbroken like a condemned playground teeming with absence

Heartbroken like a thousand steps without moving an inch

Heartbroken like an agonizing breeze on charred flesh

Heartbroken like this is all perfectly normal

Heartbroken like smiles of deceit and weaponized tears

Heartbroken like a million and one indignaties displayed for all to consume

Heartbroken like a countless rows in a spreadsheet, GoFundMe goal 0% met

Heartbroken like bloodied blonde hair finally got their attention

Heartbroken like unspeakable daily horrors

Heartbroken like tear gas at dawn prayers

Heartbroken like this has all got to go somehow

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Priscilla Poupore's avatar

Heartbroken as a bulldozed olive tree

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Matri's avatar

Heartbroken like cries from deep under rubble

Heartbroken like my kin, my kin, my God have mercy

Heartbroken like the blood of my labor

Heartbroken like the morning sun landing tenderly on shreds of clothes and limbs

Heartbroken like a poppy blooming on the edge of a ruined city

Heartbroken like a pot of soup that fills and fills the more it feeds

Heartbroken like an explosion ripping a hole in the night

Heartbroken like waves following waves, washing away borders

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Priscilla Poupore's avatar

Heartbroken as a stepped on wildflower

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Polly Poupore's avatar

Heartbreaking and hauntingly beautiful.

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Fede Reyes's avatar

Heartbroken like a swan dreaming they're a vulture soaring above a charnel ground

Heartbroken like watching Chinnamasta severe her own head before the blood streams nourish the three worlds

Heartbroken like accidentally killing the spider nesting behind your altar

Heartbroken like a fascist twitching mechanically while trapped within the thickest of Mahamaya's cobwebs

Heartbroken like all samsarins constantly missing the eternal dance of the Dakinis around their subtle body

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Amber's avatar

Heartbroken like every cry of Insha'allah

Heartbroken like people of love and dignity, grinding animal feed for their bread

Heartbroken like emaciated horses wading into the sea

Heartbroken like a Gazan account gone silent

Heartbroken like 200 journalists

Heartbroken like silence from those you used to trust

Heartbroken like finding the people whose hearts break like yours

Heartbroken like hearing "there's nothing we can do" and heartbroken like answering "fuck that"

Heartbroken like there's nothing

Heartbroken like an empty bus rattling sore bones home thru the dark.

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