As Shakespeare said: 74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF29EEzvcKA
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKZjTtVwSN
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mvU7xZfRo
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBK3aB5EtCx
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2kbD2AZIA
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HRBudRtQu
veins carry remnants of names74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNr0OSsKuWv
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2Zz0qd958
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpwGPmDyvr
dragging grief through the bloodstream74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zqsiANHPk
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtLxBlPkVm2
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMfFLjNliD
chamber by chamber,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNruCeknShG
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAUSFVdIat
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEGOdOMgPb
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUPjPpqNxIv
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfkJplsh0C
yet never enough to rid the chest74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SEhfmJLig
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBSzC5588Vc
grief roots itself into muscle memory—74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3tPvTa88Y
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2xhY6QxCf
the organs cannot distinguish74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAarJLW0F0u
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2DobkFlsN
Both consume from within.74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZe2zaq6faF
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3HcrSH8N7
beating through collapse,74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJzUrbeI02
forcing life into a body74Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEUwBBNGxI
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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and then Add to home screen.