In Which We Discuss the Sound of a Heart Shattering
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If a heart breaks and you're not around to hear it because you're too busy trying to calm your rapid breathing and stop your mascara from smudging,
Does it make a sound?
It must, I think.
The question then becomes:
What kind of sound?
BA-BOOM. An explosion. The sound of a your aorta snapping
From the main ventricle, the cacophony of the cardiac chambers
Imploding
Utter destruction. Out with a bang.
The soft whisper
Of a piece of paper torn in half.
Your heart is fragile.
Ripped paper can be used
Again, but for a different purpose.
It is now
Scrap paper for scribbling
Numbers and lists and stick figures until
Discarded once more.
The metallic sound of glass
Shattering,
Thousands of shards flying outward like
Tiny knives armed and ready to stab
The parts of you that are still whole.
Or maybe
It's the nearly silent sound
Of the last leave drifting from the branches
Of an oak at the end of autumn,
That sound of the last sign of life leaving
Its arms and landing in the soft pile of
Of worn-out compatriots.
The tree is dead.
For now.
Yes, that must be it.