As Shakespeare said: 82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4l4Fk9rW1s
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRyNlAAWNd
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9RVITFkRP
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwuZT0V47cu
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcerREqihX
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBye97ayPqM
veins carry remnants of names82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2ePKOWphm
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVirzeRJBok
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJBdXzj04j
dragging grief through the bloodstream82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6RuoBqaHXI
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MpNintXQ7
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshJ1GzZQIn
chamber by chamber,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5GhlcFebEY
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡocIfVhTq8w
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlohPtHfUmq
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRvut97fzH
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMUCMPI2YM
yet never enough to rid the chest82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvV24mmEDmC
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8hBmOnBYH
grief roots itself into muscle memory—82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhU1kaLrdf1
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbYzG4DeRzB
the organs cannot distinguish82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJElEwpgvaJ
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcBdryT7uNN
Both consume from within.82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMgeYjURhz
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZhS9zYj6C
beating through collapse,82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjlWxyWBqd5
forcing life into a body82Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iOhjklXIV
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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and then Add to home screen.