What is a Heart?
Hossein Amirkahrizi 1997 (Kerman)
What is a heart?
If I rip your chest open
Will it be there?
If I slice your skull
Can I touch it?
Or is it born
At the intersection
Of affection?
At the crossfire
Of emotions?
Can I sense it
In isolation?
"A heart is born
In the electricized
Touch of empathy_
When I care
And you care.
At times it's unrequitedly blue,
Times it's reciprocally red.
Be it selflessly dissolving,
Or selfishly rolling,
A heart is born in the flow
And undertow of compassion"
And I can feel a heart,
Not yours and not mine,
Inside your warm palm
As you reach and I grasp.
I can touch it,
I can feel it,
It is our heart.
About this poem
I wrote this poem in the recuperation from a period of disillusionment that devastated me and made me revalue a lot of my beliefs and life choices. The poem was inspired after a brief encounter I had with an amazing person whom I revere immensely. I hope you enjoy it.
Written on May 23, 2022
Submitted by hossein_a on September 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCXDEBBXXDB EAXCCXXFFXB AXXXDDA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 141 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 11, 7 |
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