Hi! I had this freeform poem written since December but am only submitting this now. This poem is a freestyle, kind of cathartic piece about this month’s theme!

Heartbeat

Ebb and flow

Tide against sand

Shifting pasts and futures

In oceans of universe

No one has yet explored

Ba-dump!

Blood flows away

Out of the gash

Missed opportunities, feelings, rivers

Gone

And it comes back picked barren

For the heart to beat again

Cycle again

Again and again and again

You reach out a hand, to see them go

And to come back

And to go

And come back

Each time ripping out your

Beating love machine

And stitching it back up clumsily

So that a bit of the bubbling crimson blood

Peeks through the thread, and

Your heart

Beats again

And the cycle continues.