As Shakespeare said: 55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfRU0aVUjc
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvicjdbSMK0
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe378YSTSFZ
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLhWATCrfTT
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG63Pob35xq
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqcfSY72BD7
veins carry remnants of names55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpIpTdVNoJ
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14tZRlhndz
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GxlIgV9TB
dragging grief through the bloodstream55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT24soFN5a0
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4FAD24oDw
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWDovieOff
chamber by chamber,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiTZZci4na
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5anbLCKV62
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWjSQmcSM9
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsqUBRMw56
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPArOvjJi2
yet never enough to rid the chest55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfXYSL1bfM
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZSpzO8xkb
grief roots itself into muscle memory—55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kn1pn64q1
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJ1jebdpMM
the organs cannot distinguish55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcJT2shDJy
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyMOixqlyVt
Both consume from within.55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirm0vevrE8
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdXJjNMeCNJ
beating through collapse,55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbr8HpnExof
forcing life into a body55Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbeuakZ0xs
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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