POEM STARTER
Write a poem about the heart, focusing on its physicality and actions.
Avoid the kind of metaphors and language which are normally associated with the heart's emotional connection.
Everyone dies
Everyone dies the same way.
Their heart stops.
No matter how you think you die
That’s the gist of it.
Whether you get shot
Drown
Die of old age
Jump off a very very tall building
The defining factor
is if your heart is strong enough to keep beating
Everyone dies the same way
Even when you feel you are choosing a path for yourself.
Your last act of independence
Instead matches every human on the planet
Sad isn’t it?
Well my hearts been strong enough so far
Fighting through things I thought would kill me
But they haven’t
I’m alive
And my hearts still beating