Cloven Souls
There is a cure for broken hearts
the salve new interest holds.
But where the cure, if such there be,
that mends the cloven souls?
Broken hearts can face the world,
with sadness, yet resolved.
Cloven souls shut all away,
their confidence dissolved.
The breeding ground of broken hearts
is love, the youngest kind,
where cloven souls had roots, deep sunk,
in old love, true, and blind.
Cloven souls might be remade
through tenderest of care,
a willingness to see the soul
of one who will not bare.
The treasured thing in cloven souls
is love they have believed.
Find one of these, then make it whole,
your soul they'll never cleave.