MY HEART

I woke up that morning scared

Rushing through a silent park

Stepping on dead purple flowers

The sun’s rays were covered in gray skies

So gray as the inside of me.

My feet and fingers were stiff

Lingering through the morning dew

They couldn’t pick or drop a piece

So I dropped to the ground and stayed

I stayed there until she came.

My h❣️rt beat was lost in my hard flesh

My eyes closed and reduced like fish mesh

I couldn’t feel my empty tummy rumble

All I imagined were the church candles.

Those that stood next to the alter.

I couldn’t perfectly sense her aroma

But her touch felt like my own

So strong and comforting

With words so sweet and soothing

I didn’t know her but she did.

I lost her to the village bar owner

The man who stayed right at the bar corner

With beards so pale without colour

And a shirt of torn collar

His voice made her whirl and follow.

This news was my worst nightmare

A dream I’d fight and lose alone

An unending walk of the night

A walk that slowly choked my breath

Until that fateful morning.

It’s the thirteenth of this month

Am writing next to her mother

Am speaking too to her father

So their blessings would set me free

So I’d walk along the shores of the great sea of love.

She was running back

Back from the holes she had entered

Back from the man she had angered

Back to the man her heart envied

And there he was laid by the road.