Dear brokenhearted.

Please tend to your wounds and please treat your pain,

Before you try to hand your heart off to the next.

No one wants to patch up a damaged heart that they did not break,

& quite frankly it's not their responsibility to fix what the last one mishandled.
No one wants a broken heart,
Fragmented, torn & bruised
Pieces missing...
Because pieces of it still remain in the possession of the last.
Don't try to wrap your heart in gauze & band-aids in attempt to cover the wounds...
Don't try to mask the pain with painkillers...
& please, please don't use someone new as your drug...
As your distraction...
God forbid.
If you are not yet willing or able to leave your past in the past...
Then kindly I ask -- please don't pretend that you are...
Deal with the past before trying to establish a future...

Choose not to & time will only undress & reopen your wounds...
Save yourself double the heartache then...
& spare the next person the trouble...
By not only addressing the heartache now but DEALING with it...
The next person deserves all of you - nothing missing, nothing broken...
& more importantly you deserve to be whole.
Take the time you need to feel whole again.
No one else deserves to be a victim of your past.
& no one else wants your baggage.
I promise.