with or without,
it seems I'm a lost cause.

the heart's been eaten up.
from one that pounded so fiercely it hurt,
to one that no longer seems to know what it beats for.

it seems on this planet,
there isn't anything worth pulsing for.
For the things are so temporal.
Even the feelings.

Return my once pulsing heart.
Stay away.
Come closer.

Pump a life of meaning and hope and love into me yet again.