Showing posts with label ribcage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ribcage. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2017

Ribcage Cracked and Spread

My heart is open
and it is bleeding

Like a scalpel 
through my skin

Like my sternum 
cracked open

Like my ribs
spread apart

Like my stunned heart
beating in the air

I will not forget 
the scars

I will remember 
and I will fight

Until life rescinds
its gift