The Heart

The heart 

knows what it wants

it desires to go

over 

the precipice

it is in love

with falling

balanced on the edge

at the brink 

it is held in battle 

with the constant 

arch-enemy 

the despicable mind 

with all its thinking, doubting, complexity 

its weighing of repercussions, of responsibilities

its debt-keeping

no wonder the body cheats

flooding our blood with the sweet 

song of oestradiol and oxytocin 

so we may be made 

blind to our future.