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thenry
thenry
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You touch my heart.

It shivers within my chest,
the tendril of sweating adrenaline
making ribs quiver taut
against their forceps.

Awoken too soon
I catch my death
on the monitor
by mistake,
distracted
as
the heart pump
connects.

Green grows the line
from left to right,
a sign as I would read it,
too fine to distinguish
consciousness, yet,

the line marks
the steady state
of my arrest, ever lighter
as the whirring begins
pumping sleep again,
but I digress.

If love feels like this,
simply being touched
at the wrong time,
then you have my regrets,
a benediction I hope
will not press you into
finishing quickly. P.S.--

A final thought:
rather than these masked saviors
I might just have welcomed
death or even a better diet, alone.

thenry
thenry
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flyguy69flyguy69about 19 years ago
excellent

this is a beautiful poem- nice economy of language and wonderful imagery.

Late reader- found it in the top lists!

twelveoonetwelveooneover 19 years ago
Interesting

very interesting

very different

TathagataTathagataover 19 years ago
Powerful

writing.

the last lines sealed it for me.

I have my own ideas what this is about and who it's for... but this:

~Awoken too soon

I catch my death

on the monitor

by mistake,

distracted

as

the heart pump

connects.~

can be taken in quite a few ways and is really an outstanding verse.

Thank you

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