My Heart Is a General
She
heard it when he said he didn’t love me.
How
could she not?
She
was beating twice or more at that time.
She
was inside me, always.
Yet it
puzzles me,
how could we be so unlike?
how could we be so unlike?
I told
her to stop
for I
can no longer find any ammunition, any strength or any tactics
to win
him back.
My
strategies are failing,
the
wings of my fighter planes are weak.
I was
certain I have given up.
But my
heart, grabbing her fastest horse
and
most prized gun
raced
towards the battle I scared the most.
Stomping
against the dead grasses,
she
took me into a new land.
My
heart is a general.
I must
follow her lead,
I must
follow her march,
until
we die as one.
Sometimes I think my heart is the general when actually I am listening to the privates instead ;) But, yes, dear by all means follow her up that hill, deep into the warm valley, wherever she leads. To die in such a battle only hurts the first few hundred times it happens. Beautiful writing!! So much love for you sweetie!
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