Still Strong

You bruised my heart ___
I know you didn't mean to touch a part of me so deeply
that it hurt to feel that much after being numb almost forever.
It made me afraid and the more
I struggled the less I could control those emotions
that overwhelmed me so threatening to delete the wall,
I had carefully constructed to keep myself safe____
I thought I had become too hard to ever care like that again
but I was wrong and though my heart is still quite tender
still,
the wall is not quite as high as before....