You Will Live

The capacity of the human heart 

To keep on beating 

After 

Atrocity

Horror and 

Deep abandonment 

So contained

So exact 

So direct 

So unexplainable. 

What does he see?

What does she feel?

Beyond sentiment 

Or the abilty to make sense 

Of an action 

Or to question 

Why

?

There is a place 

Where we go

In those times 

So dark 

There is an inevitable warmth

An unfathomable comfort 

Which massages the heart 

Which breathes life 

Into dead flesh 

Which says 

You will live 

Because I died 

And because

You were born

For a time 

Such as this. 

(c) 2022, Nikki Lyn Pugh

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