Please, Heart!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Desolated heart
please keep beating.
How can I ask more
of you, heart?
After the brutalization,
I know. It’s unreasonable.
but beat, beat!
I plead,
drip your life
into my veins.
Continue, though depleted
I beg.
Beat, beat!