My Beating Heart

(Published: 2018/09/05)

That. The sound of my beating heart.

The sound of all and every beating heart.

With all the hearts in the world beating all at once, what is the chance that someone else’s heart is beating exactly in unison with mine? What is the chance that that heart, so perfectly synchronized, just stopped? With the war and the violence and the hatred of the world, it is not a question of if, but instead a question of when mine will stop too. And yet, with everything trying to end that constant thumping in my chest, my heart keeps on beating, beating, beating. It’s the melody of all life and rhythm of all death.

It never sleeps. It never rests. That sound will never cease. And when it does, I won’t be around to hear the silence.