Cortisone Heart

Stem the bleeding

Inject me

Diffusing, curling, curdling

Breathe deeply, absorb this feeling-

The thud of the heart intensifying

Deafening, speeding, screaming

Subsiding to wheelspin on thin air

You’re here, you’re everywhere and nowhere

A nightingale singing, a seagull swooping

This was for you

And you’ll drive it in

As if shocking me to life…

But  the silence disturbs me.