Let's Remove Your Rotten Heart Poem by Mary Nagy

Let's Remove Your Rotten Heart



I'd like to tie a tourniquet
around your wounded heart
and watch until the blood
stops dripping
then I would cut away the mangled mass
of decaying vessels that hang
below the pulsing mound of life.

Perhaps then you could begin,
begin to feel, begin to love,
begin to live.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Brian Dorn 19 March 2006

Wow... strong message... and very vivid. Awesome as usual. Brian

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Patricia Gale 19 March 2006

I know another who needs this emergency service. But if is performed will it make a difference to them? Good write Mary, very good. Patricia

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Lawrence S. Pertillar 19 March 2006

MARY! ! ! Hmmm. I like the 'urgency' of this poem. Good hearts are at a premium though. finding a replacement might take a while. Good write! L

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Scarlett Treat 19 March 2006

Kind Mary with her box of band-aids who would fix the world, how tender hearted you are. But, baby girl, I finally figured this out. The one with a broken heart is the only one who can fix it. But this poem surely expresses the pain that you suffer when you love someone who hurts. Read my poem, 'I'll Cry - For you.' This poem is really good, and that 'stretching yourself' I told you to try is really paying off. You just get better! Scarlett

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Ernestine Northover 20 March 2006

This is gory glory Mary, a real hard heart rendering poem. Clearly gives a vision of a 'bleeding heart' very well described. A gutsy one. Love Ernestine XXX

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Leeanndra O'Lear 28 May 2006

Excellent title! Quite the grabber. I wouldn't want to make you mad, either...but hey, poets are supposed to have a 'streak'. :) This poem brought vampires to mind...which makes it all the more interesting.

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Will Barber 03 May 2006

Intense, Mary. Hope you don't cross my path, I'd be SO scared, lol. I'd vote a good number if you allowed it.

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Slimboydim . 31 March 2006

I really like this, still loving and caring...It has such a different feel though to your recent work. A dark edge which i love. Thank you for sharing. Kindest Regards Slim. x.

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Nimal Dunuhinga 26 March 2006

Mary! it's a great surgery.............if the patient recovered? I like the humour which hides in the poem.

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Duncan Wyllie 25 March 2006

Dear Mary, Something about this reminds me of the story of the ice Queen, I don't know, what do you think.Either way it's another poem packed with honesty and feeling.Love Duncan

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