and open heart surgery
looks like murder.
start from the beginning
and you and i
look like a fairy tale.
everything's old-fashioned,
nothing technologic,
that's supposed to imply
meant-to-last
because that's how things worked
when old-fashioned
was typical.
from the beginning
what we had looked like
a storybook tale
but start from the middle
and it's open heart surgery.
fast forward to the end
and someone's left on the table
not sewn up
all grown up
another casualty
in the old-fashioned
war of the open hearts,
a tale as old as time.
