Emory Hall: Destiny

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Destiny

you will break a little beneath the press of her hand on
your chest. you won't even know it's happening, for she
is quiet and works in secret. she will reach her fingers
between your bones and excavate your heart from beneath
its rib cage. she will study it, test its weight, its poverty.
she will then set it out into the wild world. there, it will
be starved and ached, but also nourished and held. all
the while, she is watching. and one day she will pull your
weathered heart back into its chest. lay it in its place and
bless it, for all that it endured and carried. she can smell
the kind of love it has now found, a love that will keep the
heart strong, blood red, alive. now, her work is done and
she must leave. for there are so many hearts still starving
to find their home. there is so much love still seeking love.
this is her hidden work.

— Emory Hall
from Made of Rivers