the pharmacy just stocked up
and a new treatment appeared,
“super glue, now for hearts
guaranteed good feelings and dried up tears”
.
one can only imagine the rush
to wrap their fingers around this product
because all the cash is worth it
if it meant closing up their tear ducts
.
i see a man, double my age
stricken by a bitter divorce
he would empty out his paycheck
if it meant healing his heart by force
.
i see a young woman, naive at heart
but who’s seen enough to shatter the spirit of men
could this glue fix her broken body
and spirit worn down and trapped from within?
.
what about the high school student
with infinite dreams, but little choice
maybe the glue can assembly his future
and he can treat expectations as noise
.
the line stretches out the store
and people line up around the block
all with hearts broken and needing repair
and their patience racing against the clock
.
i see the man grab his bottle
and he smears his heart with the concoction
the girl drinks it like bottled water
and the student applies it like lotion
.
they sit on benches, waiting for results
quiet hours passed, and nothing happened
even after waiting, their hearts still ached
and soon piles of glue filled up the trash can
.
it’s been three years, and how things changed
the divorced man found someone new it seems
the girl confronting the hurt she felt in the past
and the student’s rebellion to follow his dreams
.
maybe the glue took three years to activate
and the whole time it was just curing
enough time has passed for the customers to forget
about the pain they thought was ever-enduring
.
was it time, or was it the glue
that healed their broken hearts?
perhaps it was just their unbroken will
that did the difficult part
.
whatever the fact is, no matter the truth
or however the healing happened that each asserts
with just the right angles, it becomes clear
the super glue for hearts definitely works