Tell it

Tell it to stop.  

It doesn’t listen...tell it again.  

I won’t break my promise.  

No.  

I don’t want to hear  

its frantic cadence,  

the useless thump  

of something that still believes.  

Tell it: she never loved me.  

Tell it: it beats in vain.  

Tell it to stop.  

Stop my heart.  

Let silence be my vow.