Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year__ cupful and downward into a decade__ quart and downward into a lifetime__ ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman__ float.
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I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year__ cupful and downward into a decade__ quart and downward into a lifetime__ ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman__ float.
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