my heart was a monotonous beeping a soft old grandfather clock, background noise at dinner parties and a focal point for insomniacs it droned on, neither increasing or decreasing, neither rising or falling, a steady beat of a steel drum on a hot summer night
i moved an inch closer to you
my heart was a ticking time bomb, still steady as clockwork but adding drama to the movie screen it was stippling and a connect-the-dot photo of a sailboat if you wired me up to a machine, the line of my heart would be a steadily increasing mountain, closer and closer to the destination which is you
three inches closer
my heart was alla turca on piano and impressionist paint strokes it was dashed-dotted-dashed-dashed it was swift like wind and current it was nearly hummingbird wing nearly death defying
you are two inches away
my heart has broken metronomes, the tempo reached over five hundred and chatter flooded into it speaking words so fast it sounds like a language from another planet sometimes i wonder if my heart is really like mount rushmore but it's not the head of founding fathers carved into the side but the way you look when you look at me
you are here, i am here
the love i feel for you is plotted out on graph paper covering my floors but it keeps running off the page and i don't have enough paper