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Original: Poetry: open heart robbery

  • Nov. 18th, 2019 at 12:11 PM
Title: open heart robbery
Fandom: None
Rating: PG-13
Length: 300~ words
Content notes: Blood, surgery. General wangsty poem-ness.
Author notes: Also for "Failures" in my [community profile] allbingo's People-Watching Fest card.
Summary: We switch hearts.

it's a match, the donor program tells us;
so we exchange hearts, blood vessels intertwined with one another through surgery, hands bloody as the doctors dig into our bodies, try to see what makes them tick
they put our hearts upside down, them pumping out blood, pumping out air, alive
both our bodies reject them, but each others' hearts have made their home inside us, digging into the root of our spine, staying, staying 
we cannot take them back, the doctor says, examining our scars, you will have to go through the pain of rejection, you will have to watch your hearts die in each other's ribs, pulverizing into dust
we look into each other's eyes and nod
the pain is brought upon on long nights at your apartment, digging my fingers into your scars in my sleep, searching for my heart. 
you have taken it in, it has uprooted inside you, but i still search for my blood-pumper, my adrenaline, my love holder
you are bleeding-
what did you do to me? you hiss out, disgusted at the animal sleeping in your bed, the thief, the thing digging its fingers into your body, taking you as his again
i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i repeat. just give me my heart back, just give me my heart back
you cup my cheek, dig your index finger into my scar. your nail is painted bright red, mixing right in with the blood its coated with. 
the doctors said they couldn't, you remind me
i don't care; i don't fucking care. we can do open heart surgery at home, we can google it, we can get the scalpel and the disinfectant; i'll make you bleed to death. you will thank me for taking back my heart
we are both thieves, trying to get our property back from one another

Comments

china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
[personal profile] china_shop wrote:
Nov. 18th, 2019 06:52 pm (UTC)
Ohh! This is wonderful -- the ending is such an incredible gut punch.

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