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

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