Literature
The Heartbeat Through Smoke
Physical abuse
You inflict it each step of the way,
Your self-abstaining compromise
Is drawn to the gilled, and replaced by pain,
You fill the harbor,
The sanity of your mind with adrenaline
You slip through the rapture
As if nothing could be so calm among such grace.
There’s a sudden slip,
A cause to be alarmed,
A motionless blur
Surrounding irrational thoughts,
I cradled my heart by my side
As it pulsated life in and out of perception
You remember the stillness, you felt in rain
Brushing the altars of dust,
And ashes from lives no one could reach again.
You remember,
The heartbeat throu
