Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Savage Heart



 The Savage Heart

 Constricted
  Unyielding

 How the body remembers
 the longing in cold bones.

 Listen to its faint beat
 as it dies a little more
 each day until all is still
 and the silence screams
 for holding.

3 comments:

  1. Quite a chilling poem here, Lisa! Sad to have a heart die a little more each day.

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  2. haunting.
    choking out the heart
    choking out life

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  3. Oh wow Lisa this is intense, haunting, suffocating brilliant

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