Baggage Claim Heart

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Pick up my heart at baggage claim.

Last call for connections, but I’m not boarding that flight,
your name’s on the tag, but I’m checking it tonight.
You said I was heavy, I said you were brief,
got my tears in a suitcase, packed in pure relief.
I wore your love like a worn leather coat,
but I left it in Tokyo, forgot to take note.
Now the sky’s in grayscale, no arrival romance,
just this slow realization I lost in the dance.

I trace the scars where your silence cut deep,
dreams delayed, like flights I can’t keep.
But I’m not broken — I’m just rerouted,
heart on layover, emotionally suited.

Pick up my heart at baggage claim,
unclaimed, untouched, still wearing your name.
Spin and spin, but it never comes through —
one lost emotion in a crowd of what’s true.
Pick up my heart at baggage claim,
I’m walking out lighter, no need to explain.

Saw us in mirrors — conveyor belt ghosts,
the vows we never made, the most I could host.
You promised forever, but skipped every gate,
I learned to travel faster, learned how to wait.
No bellman needed, I carry my own,
every mile a confession, every zone a new home.
I don’t need retrieval, I’ve been doing just fine,
since I stopped believing you’d show up on time.

I still feel the weight in the armrest lean,
those midnight confessions that never were clean.
But I’m past the terminal, past the delay —
this heart’s not yours, it’s on its own way.

All this love — mislabeled, misshipped,
dropped in the dark, never properly gifted.
But I found me in transit, in the quiet between —
no tracking number needed, I’m where I’ve always been.

Pick up my heart at baggage claim,
unclaimed, untouched, still wearing your name.
Spin and spin, but it never comes through —
one lost emotion in a crowd of what’s true.
Pick up my heart at baggage claim,
I’m walking out lighter, no need to explain.
Pick up my heart… 

It’s not lost… it’s been released.