1:26 AM - 1:57 AM

Of diamonds and promises,
Love and laughter...
Of broken hearts and unspoken thoughts,
Grace and gratitude...
Fuzzy memories lost in a glass,
Half kisses and full hugs,
Whatever is permissible...
Understandable.
Waiting for midnight...
Then 1 am...
Then 2...
Waiting for a time...a place...
A person.
A feeling.
Love.
Waiting for understanding,
A rush from the heart.
Wanting so much more,
More than is permissible,
Reasonable.
Empty teardrops like sand,
Sifting through an hourglass...
Drip, drip, drip, drip.
Tears, sharp like the shards
Of every broken promise,
Cutting through my chest,
Slicing through my ribcage
And piercing my heart.
Leaving the chambers pumping,
Out of order,
Blood spurting out...
Gasping for air...for life.
Broken heart.
A warmth--a beat.
Life refuses to go out.
Like a wayward ship out at sea,
It will never cease
Until it finds its safe harbor.
Thud, thud, thud...
Thump, thump thump...
Beat, beat, beat, beat...
The heart finds a reason to keep on.
As small as a snail,
A light the size of a pin prick,
Hope clinging by a spider's thread...
It hangs on.
Desperately, definitively...
Defiantly.
It beats on.
And on and on and on.
Without logic,
Some days without reason...
But it continues on.
Stronger, weaker,
More vulnerable...more desperate.
Stronger.
Sustainable.
Certain.
Of love and laughter,
Kisses and goodbyes...
Of doubt and pain,
Loving and leaving.
Of all the good
And all the bad,
All things terrible,
And some things wonderful.
I choose to believe...
Somewhere out there
Lies the reason for my heart...
...beat, beat, beat....
To not give up.
...beat...beat...beat...
There's a safe harbor somewhere.
....beat......beat......beat......
Somewhere there's another part.
.......beat..............beat.............
Somewhere there's another heart.
..............beat....................
Don't give up.
Don't give up.
Don't give up.
Don't give up.
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