0 Pectus Excavatum

You stood in the dark turned away from me
With a hole in the place where your heart should be

One arm crossed in the dark not hiding
The hole in the place where your heart should be

Shoulders hunched head down and all I could see
Was the hole in the place where your heart should be

Her doe eyes were wide open and I knew that she
Had a hole in the place where her heart should be

It was a secret but you let her see
The hole in the place where your heart should be

You say that she loves you but I disagree
There’s a hole in the place where her heart should be

There’s no love when the self is the enemy
Burning holes in the place where the heart should be

I gave you my trust, it was no guarantee
It could not fill the place where your heart should be

It ran through your fingers and left me devotee
Of the hole in the place where your heart should be

My soul broke and I knew you were too much like me
With a hole in the place where your heart should be

Fingers burn with desire to permanently
Fill the hole in the place where your heart should be

I have taken mine out not for you to see
But to place in the hole where your heart should be

I will try to fix you but you cannot fix me
There’s a hole in the place where my heart should be

This time hold on to it desperately
You can fill the hole where your heart should be

You alone must be the sole trustee
You are the place where your heart should be

“Pectus excavatum is a condition in which a person's breastbone is sunken into his or her chest. The chest bows inward instead of outward. In severe cases, pectus excavatum can look as if the center of the chest has been scooped out, leaving a deep dent.”—mayoclinic.com

--Cherelyn W., 38