Poetry

Oh Good, Her Heart: Poetry

The world is buzzing

but I am soft. 

The wheels are churning

but mine are stopped. 

How long until I find my heart? 

Oh, she calls from Northern Hills. 

From daisies, wild blues, indigo flower—

far beyond the waking hour. 

The cycle of my mind’s last wills. 

I fight every day

but it just gets harder.

I call beyond my page,

people have such luck.

Her mind is broken, 

how do we fix her? 

And how to stop 

her lion’s rage? 

Tucked in the middle 

of mossed hand me down sage? 

So how to start? 

Well, with her heart. 

For that is all but tattered. 

We bleed it dry,

to see her cry.

But see, none of it here really mattered. 

And then, go on,

Oh good! A Song.

Tucked inside her sparkling brain.

We wrench that out, the medley too, 

though it flits on through,

A soft jazz blue.

And then her head unscrews. 

Her brain, oh now, we pray. 

For shadows and dusk, 

And beauty and lust,

Are all now dripping 

On display. 

She doesn’t fight.

We then move on. 

Oh, there’s her song. 

We stuff it back 

in her brain.

And now the shadows

dance too and fro, 

And now really, we must go. 

She can’t fight back

her mind 

again. 

Not when a song

is all she knows,

it can’t pull 

her back out and so. 

We’ll be here next ‘fort

To do it all again.

Now she retreats

to her little den. 

Proving she’s stronger. 

She’ll last twice the longer. 

Till we rip her up away

and so to say. 

She’s here to see another day

Blue as the sky, and the ocean bay.