Author's Note to Readers: This poem is based off of real life events, and is dedicated to someone who will never read this. Thank you to my family and my best friends on writco, I am smiling and laughing more. I am trying to heal from this, even though it is on going.


When the doctors told me my heart attack was caused from too much stress and sadness,
I told them it was from my broken heart.
Maybe I realized it before,
but decided to brush past it.

I stayed with you and loved you,
so much that I was blinded.
I wanted your approval and acceptance,
so I gave you myself to mold as you liked.
I needed you to see me as important,
so I handed my...