What’s A Heart For

-What's A Heart For-
by
Keaton Foster



If not to beat
If not to live
If not to believe
Then I ask
Then I question
What's a heart for
What can it be
How does it seem
Is what it feels real
Or is what is real
More a matter of mind
And less of a concern
Of something mired
So deeply
So completely
Within flesh and blood
Is what is real
More of a lesion
Attached to the spin
Infecting the outcome
Imprisoning the occupant
Keeping us from knowing
From understanding
What's a heart for
Unsure
Unclear
Unaware
Nothing do I know
I wish that I did
I wish that I could
But I cannot
Sad at times
I may seem
In ways that may cause you
To feel sorry and hopeless
For me
Please don't
It's not what I wish
Not what I require
If you want to help
If you want to play a part
A role in the performance
Of my life and not your own
I ask of only one important thing
An honest display
Of one of your attributes
One that I find
Inexplicably impossible
Curiosity
What's a heart for
I wish that like me
For you to spend
The sum of your days
Trying to figure it out
To decipher all meaning
From something serving
Such an important purpose...




What's A Heart For
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013