A Short Writing Experiment
Steady On
Your heart never really breaks.
Loved ones die, people are lost and you just get used to wiping away the tears. Stained cheeks are never in fashion.
The person who holds your soul can always say the four words no one in love should ever have to hear.
Technically it’s five words, but people only always ever say four.
Your unstable world, your shaky life – at any moment it can crumble.
Topple.
The heart speeds up and slows down, but no amount of ‘let’s just be friends’ can ever break it.
The symbol of a heart doesn’t even look like a heart.
We profess love with what looks like cleavage. Or a butt.
Or a vagina.
Same with flowers.
Sex organs are our symbols for love.
If you’re scared of sex, what does that tell you about love?
Blood is pumped and pushed by your heart. Delivers oxygen. Gets trapped and allows sex to happen.
Yet, when was love and fucking mutually exclusive?
Growing up – I believed all the fairytales.
Growing up just means unlearning everything you learned to believe while growing up.
By the time I learned the difference between love and like, sex had become a mutilated abstract.
Never knowing when to quit.
When fairytales ended, my heart did not break.
It carried on, beating steady.
Silly thing that it is.





