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.
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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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and then Add to home screen.