Heartbeat

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    • is doin some Solitary Thinkin-- Lee Ann Womack

    Poem Commentary

    If someone wrote this to you from 1000 miles away, is married, is your best friend, how would you take it? She's told me that she didn't feel a certain way about me after I had rejected her without knowing I did.

    Heartbeat

    My heart beats ever so silently in the night.
    It remembers to beat, without me telling it to
    I can hear it, no need to think it
    It is my heart, faint and trying to transmit

    A secret hiding within this body
    I can hear my beat silently as I lay
    The echo grows as I begin to move
    The baseline beating to a simple groove

    This little heart has a secret
    If I get close I can hear yours too
    eyes begin to swirl as the uneasiness spills through
    the heavy rhythm begins to make its debut

    Steady as I stay, Steady as I stay
    The up beats and the down beats
    This heart I can hear it matching mine
    Both heartbeats intend to combine

    I hear mine as I lay silent in the night
    The beats persistent in sunlight or moonlight
    The tempo changes through  sense of movement
    Constantly making it’s improvements

    Steady as I go, Steady as I go
    I carry your tune in my head to remind me
    Sometimes I can hear it even when you're nowhere near
    It says I am alive, Can you hear me? I am still here…

    I try to keep your melody playing in my heart
    The strength in those beats mine sung in a round
    A sense of passion filled intensity
    A beat with such a rhythmic propensity

    But your heart was sworn to secrecy
    The lyrics begging to never to be heard
    The beating within, well protected
    A chorus so daunting, and disconnected

    As my heart began to hear your beat
    The more pronounced mine became
    Mine almost silent, the chorus I had to rewrite
    The smooth baseline I began to recite

    Once broken in too many parts to count
    Beating ever so silently in the night
    If you could hear it then you’d know
    The beautiful audio your heart has come to bestow

    Steady as I lay, Steady as I lay
    I keep the tone in my heart
    Silently I wait, as I place my finger over the fret
    I listen for the note I can never forget

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    Lolee commented on Heartbeat

    07-25-2009

    I wold never have thought of this. And it's amazing how much stuff you came up with on the subject. Very interesting! Your girl should be proud.

    BooTz commented on Heartbeat

    07-06-2009

    this is a beautiful&well done poem. she's lucky to have that attn from u. i love it ;p

    Chaos128 commented on Heartbeat

    07-06-2009

    Heartbeat is in a class by itself. there are so may different interpretations one could make - That's what makes it so fascinating. You might have limited it a bit (In my mind) by providing a preface in your poet's comment, but the effect is negligable. This work is, inevery way, superior.

    sandmoran commented on Heartbeat

    07-05-2009

    I know I am going to be thinking about this poem while I am waiting for sleep to come.

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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