Necessary Burden

Artwork: Fragments - Teetering Bulb (Kurt Huggens and Zelda Devon), 2008

it is a
burden:

tiresome,
wearying,
annoying,
maddening

little
lump
of
tissue.

subject to
the whims,
caprices,
ins and outs,

the litany
of a million
human
tragedies
and
comedies.

can't live
with it ~

can't live
without it.

but a
heart
without
love
is a
poor,
pitiful
thing
indeed.