what the heart is for

what the heart is for

despite daily

faithlessness to distraction
and occasional skips
the expands and
contracts of
honest impulse
willing to stretch
toward someone else
for their own sake
keep time with another
and loan them space
to breathe awhile
the steady
exercise of it all
tearing
then
building
muscle capacity beyond the
lungs or ribs
toward wholeness and
communal beat

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