Slightly bruised but it isn't broken this heart I have is just a token of the love I hold inside the pain I have denied and all the sacrifices I have made.  Badly bruised but still unbroken my heart is steel my soul is diamond you can not kill what you did not create and in my person your hate does not take. I refuse the world the right to judge the sins I commit my soul is not smudged it is unmarked by the things I have had to do because I feel them just like you do.  Deeply bruised my heart is not broken my heart is filled with the words I've spoken and wrote and cried and lived and died inside this mind of mine.  I wish I could make you see the very deepest part of me that place where the light shines so bright that everything is within my sight I can See the things that you can not like all the times that you could not say the words you wanted to say that I needed to hear that kept you so close that kept you so dear to me and now it is too late to repeat these mistakes and I must awake my own self to this new world that I will create.  The shadows I cast are long and belong to me and only I can sing the song of my heart but you can learn the words and know how I feel.  There are days I want it to end when I need a special friend someone who is with me to the end someone who I can trust without reserve or fear someone I can hold most dear to me and divulge my darkest secrets and let them share in my fate.  Horribly bruised but it will not be broken this heart of mine is stronger than you know or believe and I have no way to help you see the strength that resides in it.  I will not be broken though I feel so alone some times like I am adrift in a face of strangers who do not know my name and isn't it a shame that they play this game that causes them to lose themselves and be told who they are by those they think they love?  So many times I have reached out and a few times I'd thought I'd gotten out of this shadow I cast but it didn't last it never lasts because of their past and maybe even mine but I have healed and changed with time and I have written this rhyme to show you the changes I have made, the sacrifices I have made, the choices I have made.  Forget what you thought you knew because I am new and I am awakened, I found it hard to speak and felt so weak like an unwanted freak because of the life I lived.  I wish I could go back, back to the days before and show you so much more so that you would know. . .so that you would know. . .you would know. . .hurt and abused but still unbroken this heart of mine is my only token of the life I've lived.  Share it with me.