How many spikes does your heart have?
How many spikes does your heart have?
When it twists as it beats
as it expands and contracts
how many splinters dig in
how many barbs break off
how many thorns are with you
They are yours
how many tears split and furrow your heart?
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How many spikes does your heart have
thin, deep stingers
that tear and burn
but make you feel
stuck in your flesh
pierced without ceremony
wounds and scars from squeezes
from afflictions and torments
from caring and remorse
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Because a heart without spikes is not alive
it does not let itself be involved
it does not allow itself to relate
it does not want to touch
it does not mix
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but when the thorns of our hearts echo together
something powerful happens
the deep mourning and pain that catch us off guard now have an embrace
they tune in
they welcome each other
they reverberate through other bodies
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How many spikes does your heart have
Because a heart with spikes is not an angry heart
but one of flesh that pulses with life.
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