As Shakespeare said: 61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOnjQUc9KV
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75Td28dGI3
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiA7oaYoS7H
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjofVgbJXp
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡORL9h6decG
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJAd59s5zv
veins carry remnants of names61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tYx6bp6tQ
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAFVPmBAL9
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4gGQ5LUqW
dragging grief through the bloodstream61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYdjxX20n6
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjn5sEySA80
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDGgluX9cV
chamber by chamber,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYiML9Mco2
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5fEqMobkG
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLWk4PxqGp
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxgxkOEN4D
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNmHGO7bVA
yet never enough to rid the chest61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN0aC4GsXsj
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03A2i2F6EA
grief roots itself into muscle memory—61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIhTYLoeal
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqICCy0Fyg
the organs cannot distinguish61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m9Pi7uEMS
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgzqxs3NAp
Both consume from within.61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBO098CKpw2
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzWdXQ2qFW
beating through collapse,61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIIFZ6ZqLD
forcing life into a body61Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDc9zDlant
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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