the second heart
As he ate
I proffered a sweeter flesh,
flesh attended by love and hope,
and bid him eat of the new heart
instead
He took, squinted, sniffed and gnawed,
tasted - tested and recoiled,
throwing the new heart away, wailing
"Vile - vile sweetness, foreign to my tongue
and better tasting, but alien and worse!"
And he squatted upon the ground,
held his heart in his hands,
and ate of it,
hissing "Bitter, bitter -
to bitterness I am accustomed, bitterness I will eat"
1 Comments:
After Stephen Crane :)
I hope your heart is sweeter than his x
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