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The Heart

Heart, roused with blood

you are lively as the sun,

but ever are you small,

and fiendishly are you undone..

 

You are majestic,

and as important as Night,

but you are destined

to fail amidst this fight..

 

This fight..

Between Dark and Light,

too cold for the moon,

and too warm for the sun,

you increasingly sway to opposite ends

and ever do you believe to have faith

but your faith is melted upon my will...

 

Darkness rouses thee,

and in curiosity innocent,

you crack open the closet

that hides the dark commandment

that shall ever bind you in despair

and shall twist you though you were as air..

 

Light rejuvenates you,

and through the longing days

of evil trodden forth

you complacently design yourself

a structure of immunity

to swell and flee fast

against this growing evil seed..

 

Together you two,

designed by Love and Hate,

have conspired,

to remove the 3rd; Innate..

For no man on Earth,

nor in Skies, or in Seas,

might chose the middle,

where lies no man to be..

 

You might protect us,

and you might save us,

but you fuel a pollution strong,

that ever writhes within us,

a dichotomy of song

that ever equivocates us

and ever decimates us..

 

The Heart is our enemy,

and yet is our savior,

but it is not ours,

nor our being

you decide our fate so idiosyncratically,

and perceptual; to be such a misnomer,

For the Heart is a will, not a being, no, not even a power,

and is tortured by our breathing..

 

The Heart is a riddle,

no man yet may dare defy,

for within this heart is a circle

of ritual and lie..

 

The Heart is life,

but at it's own free will,

and it alone decides our strife

that with pain for it we seek to fill,

So how, on Earth, Heaven, or Hell,

does it list us as its friend,

and how does it follow us to the End?

Man may never tell...

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Jul 6, 2010
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