The other night as I listened to my wife's heart this poem came into my head, fits well. |
-The Call of Your Heart- by Keaton Foster Upon your chest An ear is lent In our shared bed We lay as fools Lovers twisted by rules Each of us has our place Our role upon this world You succeed while I fail I’m happiest for you I’m saddest for myself What a terrible place to be Such is an unshakeable dream I cannot awaken myself From the deepest of sleep Numb I must admit I feel Indeed I love you more than before You love me less evermore Here I always am Mumbling auspicious Wavering’s of greatness Spoken so low that you Have no chance at deciphering All that could be understood Each syllable spoken At such a low volume That not one will ever again Rise to the word assembled Each consonant softly whispered An empty linchpin easily broken You won’t ever know what I’m saying Uninterested you indeed seem Disinterested without question I have now come to believe Listen wise The call of your heart Sings a subtle song Life You are very much alive Beating the odds Withstanding the onslaught Living as one should But as so few do I am of course jealous My own ear is deaf My own method Of transduction broken An unrepairable apparatus Of beautifully simplistic logic Form following function In the highest regard I am unable to relate to the sounds Of life in such an amazing array I know both nothing and everything Between such knowledge and ignorance Alone I have always stood Here All that I know and understand Is a brutal personification Of an overabundance of darkness I cannot hear myself I know nothing of my own heart Does it beat Because I’m alive Or it is overtly silent Because what I doing Is living least of all Some important questions Just can’t be answered By the will of God Or the intent of any man Most of all one like me I understand all that I know By the ways of the same God I understand all that I don’t The call of your heart Is all that I have left All that once belonged I wish I could hear it But my one truest love I fear that I cannot… The Call of Your Heart Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014. |