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
Wary Wonderlust 