As Shakespeare said: 58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTVZLeNlIW
“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack”
Yet the heart breaks so faintly.
The one organ supposed to pump blood58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbDYyVbqz4
bleeds with rotten emotion and ripped sanity.
To the size of a fist yet a major regulator,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXAEVMS5s3
no wonder clenching feels so suffocating.
It convulses beneath cages of bone,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJqlY0h13nv
bruising itself against ribs that cannot console it.
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quieter than funerals.
Arteries pulse like frantic apologies,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzIHLaY1fMQ
veins carry remnants of names58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoExNkE94E
the body should have forgotten by now.
And still it beats;58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByS6yGl18p
stubborn, pathetic, almost feral—58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1riyCd1D8G
dragging grief through the bloodstream58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhe2R4MuzJN
as though sorrow were oxygen.
Perhaps that is the cruelest design of it all:58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeonOnOA49R
the heart does not shatter dramatically.
It decays slowly,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YKYgznBla
chamber by chamber,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzJnjZEnnz
until even silence develops a pulse.
Until the body learns to survive58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcu6i17eqBW
on emotional hemorrhage.
Until insomnia settles beneath the sternum58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKOBZxIwtd
like a second heartbeat.
Every palpitation becomes a eulogy,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU6Ttnt3m42
every breath an act of reluctant endurance.
The lungs expand,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6h0LzaBgB
yet never enough to rid the chest58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2NJMlcwaO
of its phantom heaviness.
And somewhere between systole and diastole,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4M4foIDdyu
grief roots itself into muscle memory—58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIlKjhT5ToK
parasitic, unwavering, immortal.
Perhaps that is why mourning exhausts the body so cruelly;58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtRVYlplBJ
the organs cannot distinguish58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNOphHQV2j
between love and disease.
Both invade quietly.58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqhVFIZI98v
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Both leave the ribs hollowed like abandoned cathedrals.
Still, the heart persists in its brutality,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4PCVzqglyq
beating through collapse,58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVbhRjSWUXQ
forcing life into a body58Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBV341A2tv5
that no longer knows what to do with it.
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and then Add to home screen.