Elusive Organ
To reach your soul
My arms crawl through your veins
And rip open peepholes
To peer out at my progress.
I thought I'd be done
When I found your heart.
But that was only the center
Of something greater than the both of us.
I don't know the number of beats
That's normal for your heart.
I don't even know mine.
What I do know is that it changes
When I'm excited to see you
Come through the door
And I free fall into my mind
Where laughter lies on parachutes
And my parachute always deploys
The air caressing me
Onto safe grounds.
I could perform surgery in another life
Surrounded by hospital beds
Occupied by empty vessels.
But I still don't think I'd find
That elusive organ
Your soul.
I could search through chest cavities
And open mouths all day
But never find it.
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Written on November 03, 2023
Submitted by LadyPhantasmagoria on November 08, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 177 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 8, 6, 3 |
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