"A Dissection&Quot; Poem by Munia Khan

I dissect my heart into shreds

To keep it in repair

For it has five chambers instead of four

The atria and ventricles are filled with love

And the fifth one in the middle contains ‘you'

It is located between the retrospection of my love and life

Each day it pumps about two thousand gallons of blood for you

The blood of my passion and faith

My hope and desire.

Being expanded and contracted

It beats one hundred thousand times a day

Only for your life

But I never carry this heart of mine

I only bear my memories

And my memories bear my heart.


Written in the Morning of 3rd April,2010