What is an emotional heart?

What is an Emotional Heart?

Like an angel on earth, it is a rare sight in this age of masks and stone hearts.

So very soft and warm that one who has it has no fear of becoming cold and distant.

It is in tune with the feelings of others and
can soften the blow of an insult or pain;
absorb the tears of another;
give comfort and warmth to those who need it.

Yet with that blessing of a kinder heart
comes a terrible curse...

Because of its softness,
its openness,
the emotional heart is easier for it to be
Ripped
and torn
into shreds,
broken and shattered like glass.

The pieces so
numerous and far-flung,
that it cannot be fixed by itself.
Someone kind and nice would have to help the once happy helper pick up the pieces and tape them together, slowly and carefully, for it could break at any instant.

Finally, with much tape and time, the heart can be fixed.
However, it becomes colder and harder in an attempt to protect itself from being broken
Again.

If it is broken too much...all of its warmth is gone, its gentleness turned to stone.

And it becomes like the rest of the hearts of stone.