Submitted to: Contest #321

A Heart Can Always Hide

Written in response to: "Center your story around something that’s hidden."

Drama Friendship

This story contains themes or mentions of mental health issues.

A heart can always hide

They can keep secrets inside

Before you decide

If it was truth or if you lied

A heart can feel pride

The feelings inside.

A heart can be broken

By the words you have spoken

By each day you awoken.

A heart can explain

Whether you're mad or your sane

Whether you're in love or in pain

Whether you're proud or in vain.

A heart will always stay

From night and from day

It will never betray

Unless you pass away.

A heart can be cold

Whether you’re young or you’re old

Whether you’re shy or you’re bold

Through the love you can’t hold.

A heart can always feel

Whether it’s fake or its real

Whether it can shatter or can heal

A heart is made of steel.

A heart can know

When it beats fast or beats slow

When you are excited or feel low

It can stop or can go

A heart can endow

A heart can feel cheer

When those are near

To the people you hold dear

When you have no fear

A heart can be there

For the people you care

If love is in the air

Even if isn’t fair

A heart can be a mind

The scientists find

The connection is not aligned

There’s none of its kind

A heart is a soul

And it has a mission, a goal

No matter the love that they stole

It matters as a whole

A heart will always be

Something hard to see

Like the boughs of a tree

It’s hard to feel free

A heart has a key

For the he, she or we

A heart is like the sea

It beats for you and me

A heart is like no other

The love for your brother

And your mother

And each other

A heart can love with no fear

For the ones that are dear

For the ones held near

When they need to lend an ear

A heart can feel alive

When the feelings arrive

When the feelings then thrive

For the people who strive

A heart can end

People’s thoughts never mend

The prayers they send

For the hands that they lend

A heart can be cruel

And those that fool

In a fight that they duel

And they look as gruel

A heart can hold one

Like the moon and the sun

When the day is done

For everyone

A heart is not a game

For nobody always feels the same

Sometimes they are in for the blame

When the love that had came

A heart has no name

A heart can break

Because of the love that they take

The evil that they make

Every time you awake

Though your soul might shake

A heart can be bright

Through the sorrows that they fight

They fight for what’s right

Though in their hearts they feel fright

A heart is a light

Shining in the night

A heart can adore

Their love grows more

Like the sea without the shore

Like a boat without an oar

A heart can be yours

Down to the core

Some hearts can lie

And it can make you cry

And they always say goodbye

No matter how much you try

They can’t look you in the eye

A heart can shield

The love that can never be healed

Secrets always sealed

A heart can speak

From the strong or the weak

For the tense or the meek

For the warm or the bleak

A heart can go on

From the night to the dawn

But not from what’s gone

A heart can be merry

For the love that they carry

The hate they can bury

A heart can wait

It can take away hate

It can can feel great

Though you feel it’s too late

A heart can fade

Of the love that you made

The foundation they laid

From the games that they played

A heart can be deep

The tears that you weep

The love that you keep

Until you fall asleep

A heart can accept

The tears that they wept

The nights that they slept

A heart can be in a cage

From the anger and the rage

From a young age

A heart can see through

All that you do

A heart can view

All the things that are true

The things they never knew

A heart is not just a thing

It helps you thrive, it helps you sing

Like a bird without a wing

Like a kite without a string

Like a bee without a sting

Like queen without a king

A heart can delay

The words that they say

The games that they play

The love that can stay

Through the night and the day

A heart is like a ray

A heart can be shaken

The days you awaken

The love that they have taken

A heart can be just

The feelings that must

Have turned to rust

Have turned to dust

A heart believe

A heart can grieve

The people that leave

The hope that we heave

The love that we weave

A heart is a gift

The love that we lift

The feelings that shift

The feelings that drift

A heart can shine

Hanging on a line

Like a glass of wine

When we feel fine

A heart can yell

Like a man in a cell

The love that they sell

The words that they tell

Your love in a shell

A heart can feel bliss

Like a hug and a kiss

The love that you don’t miss

Into the abyss

A heart is like a song

That you play along

Through the wrong

It makes you feel strong

A heart can feel warm

Through the rain and the storm

Through the bees that swarm

A heart is like a star

It helps you go far

It ends the war

It mends the scar

A heart can understand

It can give you a hand

Though you are hanging like a strand

A heart can go above

A heart is like a dove

A heart can feel love.

Posted Sep 23, 2025
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