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Le Coeur.
7 pounds.
A human heart weighs approximately 7 pounds. That’s about 250 to 350 grams of open space. I always wonder how impossibly suffocating it is, to occupy so much of everything in such a small space.
My tiny heart, the size of my pathetic fist, encased inside my brittle ribs has suffered over years of broken dreams, half-hearted promises, redundant heartaches, bad weather, “i-told-you-so’s”, smoking, drinking, falling in love, falling out of love, “forever’s”, “not meeting expectations”, envy, lust, jealousy, pride, flirting to not feel, sleeping just to shut everything, music and movies to drown you to not think, being so alone you just can’t cry anymore, being too happy just by waking up, plane rides to new places, babies’ toothless grin, loving pets, long roadtrips, sweet tight hugs, double rainbows, weddings, divorce, new books on...
A human heart weighs approximately 7 pounds. That’s about 250 to 350 grams of open space. I always wonder how impossibly suffocating it is, to occupy so much of everything in such a small space.
My tiny heart, the size of my pathetic fist, encased inside my brittle ribs has suffered over years of broken dreams, half-hearted promises, redundant heartaches, bad weather, “i-told-you-so’s”, smoking, drinking, falling in love, falling out of love, “forever’s”, “not meeting expectations”, envy, lust, jealousy, pride, flirting to not feel, sleeping just to shut everything, music and movies to drown you to not think, being so alone you just can’t cry anymore, being too happy just by waking up, plane rides to new places, babies’ toothless grin, loving pets, long roadtrips, sweet tight hugs, double rainbows, weddings, divorce, new books on...
