Inenodable

National Poetry Writing Month, day 2. A poem based on a word from this Twitter account, devoted to "obscure and interesting English words." I scrolled for a while and then found "inenodable," which refers to something that cannot be untied.

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Remove the heart.

Let it live on it's own

for a short while.

Become invulnerable.

Let it pay rent

and shop at the market

and talk about the weather.

Let it exist apart 

from a binding cage.

Sustain irreverance.

Meet it for coffee

on Saturday mornings

and gobble up

the ghosts of your past

between sips of 

vanilla latte.

Musn't weaken.

Drive together to

a snowy mountain

and remark on scenery - 

there must be meaning

in an avalanche.

Withering still.

Open wide now,

it craves a safe return,

it craves a cage.

The cage is empty 

without it.