Never Offer Your Heart to Someone Who Eats Hearts

In Honor of National Poetry Month before -the writers Burst into writing with first sign of ink ,I thought of Alice Walker

by Alice Walker:

Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.

Never offer your heart
to a heart gravy lover.
Your stewed, overseasoned
heart consumed
he will sop up your grief
with bread
and send it shuttling
from side to side
in his mouth
like bubblegum.

If you find yourself
in love
with a person
who eats hearts
these things
you must do.

Freeze your heart
immediately.
Let him—next time
he examines your chest—
find your heart cold
flinty and unappetizing.

Refrain from kissing
lest he in revenge
dampen the spark
in your soul.

Now,
sail away to Africa
where holy women
await you
on the shore—
long having practiced the art
of replacing hearts
with God and Song.

by Alice Walker

11 thoughts on “Never Offer Your Heart to Someone Who Eats Hearts”

zikaolofin April 1, 2015 at 8:01 am

Hahaha. Kind of found this funny. I love it.

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kneal1 Post authorApril 1, 2015 at 4:46 pm

thanks Zika , glad you liked it ,as do I

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Michael Ware April 1, 2015 at 4:54 pm

Have a little twisted but brilliant aura to it but well understood.

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kneal1 Post authorApril 1, 2015 at 5:27 pm

right Alice Walker is a whole other world… Thanks for chiming in Michael Ware if ever you want to start a blog(of any kind) its free and I support you here is the link https://wordpress.com/website or google it, I know you are busy, I tried to get my sister to blog…

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