June 14, 2020Poem

Restore cold hearts

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Restore cold hearts

Bestow upon them the gift

Of inefficiency

The heaviness of defeat

The light rapidity of excitement

As the light changes

With the sunrise

The pounding fit to burst

The tremor of apprehension

Feathering the rhythm

Filling the silence with missed beats

Rid this combine

Of its competent mechanics

Systemic complexity

Hydraulic extrusion

Replace dull predictability

With the unexpected

When reactions can be unequal

The pulse of life

An interaction in opposition

To expectation

An attraction in proportion

To its repulsion

Give back a capacity

To self-regulate

Let hearts stop as they want to

Allow them freedom to grow

Bigger, wider than the space

They seem to need

Remove the cage

Embrace the vitality

Inherent in their

Vigorous fragility

There will be utility

In a licence to breathe

Big hearts are reverse engineered

With built in redundancy

The more they are used

The better they are

At distinguishing potential

As well as discerning

The differential impact

Of action and reaction

In a confined space

Until they stop.