"pulmonaries" poems
Intertwine our pulmonaries
Pull tight, tie together our coronaries
My superior vena cava resting near yours
Hear that, the sound of opening ventricle doors
Beautiful looking aortas fixed
Winding together as a double helix
This heart of mine will skip a beat
Just so my arrhythmia and yours might meet
This ticker will only continue to tick
If next to yours it may stick
Not a murmur because of bad health
A murmuring of loves bountiful wealth
Atrium to atrium, heart to heart:
Blood's continual pumping, so long as our valves never part.
Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 6:44 PM UTC
lub dub lub dub
fist clenched in my chest
nerves and nodes grasping the strings
my pacemaker running rampant
lub dub lub dub
each chamber beats and pounds
pressure rising ever higher
millimeters of mercury mounting
lub dub lub dub
my vena cava caving in
my pulmonaries passing out
tight and taut now limp and languid
lub dub lub dub
my atriums crumpling
my ventricles moldering
its contents come spilling
liquid straw spouting
a serum suspending
red discs running
gasping for something
then slowing and clotting
my leukocytes leaking
my platelets melting
blue blood is boiling
crying for something
then breaking and rotting
my strings are snipped
cutting off the circulation
a cardiac collapse
i wanted love to make my heart beat
not bring my arteries pain
i wanted you to make my system complete
but alas it was all in vein
Feb 7, 2020
Feb 7, 2020 at 7:28 PM UTC