A second heart fills my chest
Wrapped within the first one
It grew
On a long walk down a hallway
During a desperate night
Across one hundred faultless notes
Inside embraces superpowered by sight from eyes unseen
It’d barely begun to beat
on an ominous, light-filled afternoon
When the blood flow was broken
Chambers clenched from drips off strangled veins
How long can you carry a dying heart inside living flesh
Each beat quaking beneath bone and skin
Hidden but not silent
The clang of desire
Of love unfulfilled
How long can you live
while decaying
