As Shakespeare said: 31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAqg4YRbG85
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvpWPwSPBZ2
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tcmeK411T
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYP6cFxguZP
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
Strange how flesh can harbor catastrophes31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ80JG77vWYS
quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwICuy1vjd
veins carry remnants of names31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡadFHH1rTcz
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4jrjxkm5w
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBilbgmxka6
dragging grief through the bloodstream31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzSuvI4P43b
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwSvB3qqpD
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHofLI4erz
chamber by chamber,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8wfKU4aUO
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsxSoStxU4
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbYjfCl71X
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEzri4H5Bn
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeApkfORwj9
yet never enough to rid the chest31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHmeYbunEy7
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBVUx95ZPXg
grief roots itself into muscle memory—31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUchm8S3je
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhS2TvEjh8R
the organs cannot distinguish31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uD9eO5OnQ
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHXRN8xWiB
Both consume from within.31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoL9AciCYbf
Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YZ0YuRCP1
beating through collapse,31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgklmOBlKol
forcing life into a body31Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6yfHw1hw0
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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and then Add to home screen.