it's there....

if you want to see it

if you turn your head to the right

if you use your finger and outline it

~

tell me

where yours is today

~

on your sleeve perhaps

::

tell me you see the heart above

and

then

tell me yours is swollen with love

that it's too big for your chest

that the pain is gone

that the broken feeling it once had has disappeared

~

tell me your heart cries when your child is hurt

that it dances when you smile

that it beats loud enough to be heard when your loved ones are around

that it feels everything when your eyes are too tired to see

and

that it didn't absorb the ugly words that were thrown at it back in high school

~

tell me that others feel your heart long before they see you enter a room

go ahead

tell me

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