As Shakespeare said: 33Please respect copyright.PENANAR3xQVqyvBn
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood33Please respect copyright.PENANAWiep4w8zI4
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,33Please respect copyright.PENANA4xbZRikLS2
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,33Please respect copyright.PENANAcn8SlLM9zZ
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes33Please respect copyright.PENANATs99qUNRU8
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,33Please respect copyright.PENANA5ViIMvQXHO
veins carry remnants of names33Please respect copyright.PENANAcYba24Maig
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;33Please respect copyright.PENANAgkvqXU3JqP
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—33Please respect copyright.PENANAiNEEIlpVk3
dragging grief through the bloodstream33Please respect copyright.PENANAYCov7fLNyT
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:33Please respect copyright.PENANAzZwpZ63lua
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,33Please respect copyright.PENANAm6kV5hpMfn
chamber by chamber,33Please respect copyright.PENANAH5EM0tnYRt
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive33Please respect copyright.PENANAxAJIr0jZ9t
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum33Please respect copyright.PENANA5EtzX0dGqv
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,33Please respect copyright.PENANAoysRshhgMH
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,33Please respect copyright.PENANAq5HVRqCzGC
yet never enough to rid the chest33Please respect copyright.PENANAuqDJwQCkWu
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,33Please respect copyright.PENANAmbl8PLXrp6
grief roots itself into muscle memory—33Please respect copyright.PENANAXUP7VwEsbe
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;33Please respect copyright.PENANAZoOhuyOqIO
the organs cannot distinguish33Please respect copyright.PENANAKejNefzjrf
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.33Please respect copyright.PENANAlm5eDAMQu2
Both consume from within.33Please respect copyright.PENANAUYqqtpXAXU
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,33Please respect copyright.PENANAqYEn4wDn8z
beating through collapse,33Please respect copyright.PENANAHTdfHkjs0r
forcing life into a body33Please respect copyright.PENANAtXgTVkcPyD
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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