Heart
I can't see you dear heart for the flesh on my bones growing in places I wish it wouldn't
I can't feel you inside beating profoundly and terrific thriving on food, water, air, love and hate
I can't often smell your blood bubbling up inside, pleading are we there yet
I can't hear you for the tides of traffic, children singing, TV poets and scratching; licking dogs
I can't think of you for the thoughts of suicide and sex, romance and beauty, poverty and tiny luxuries
But I taste you now, almost every minute, waiting to pass my heart shaped lips
And I know how you've changed.
How although you were blue and red but now you are black.
And how you haven't because you will always be lighthearted.
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Written on September 16, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on September 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Characters | 700 |
Words | 131 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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