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Collecting Hearts

You ran here and there
Probably most everywhere
With your calculating cool
Your Jar of Hearts was almost full

You smiled once, maybe twice
No one did it ere grace thrice
Never breaking your one rule
Your Jar of Hearts was almost full

You always claimed to care
But never did you truly dare
You were taught that in school
Your Jar of Hearts was almost full

Two of Three
Anita’s hands lost their grip on anything but air. She swayed, but she seized rope rail before the cliff fell away under her feet. The darkness seemed to hit a wall a long, long way across from her. She tripped back from the edge, hyperventilating.
The sky flashed. Anita’s hands flew to shield her eyes against the symbol lit on the opposite cliff. It was like two triangles kissing or a bowtie. A long, deep note sounded and lingered, a horn of alarm.
“The rune of emergence. They’re coming.”

 Picking myself up,

one more time

I'm trying,

to see through tears 

once more, is my light dying?

I've surrendered 

all that I know how,

can You just answer

and hold my heart?

It's been full and heavy

I want You 

to renew it

into what will reflect Yours.

My littleness

is breaking

my humanity overtaking.

Will You set this right?

I'm asking for You to fight the fight.

When burdens are heavy

When pathways are dark

 take my heart

here it is,

beating hard

Yours

be my Love

i've given in

all i've got

for You

let my soul break

until i crave

unashamed grace

of You

drown my fear

in Your tears

my hurt

in You

give flight to the doubt

that holds me

captive

from You

take my hand

draw me near

closer

with You

lead me on

show me how

to take the steps

You want

i give this heart

the one that's torn

i give this yes

the one that yearns

i give this life

the one with love

love and sacrifice

i give this heart

the one that's sore

i give this amen

and it hurts more

i give my words

my actions 

burn

i give this heart 

the one with joy

i give this smile

for you to enjoy

i give this song

with all 

of what holds meaning

i give to you

my everything

(Here goes, Erin! You did Faye... I did this. Chapter One is coming, but even though I don't have anymore than that completed, I thought I should post before we hold the website funeral.)

**Two poems, unrelated except for they both have something to do with North, and both were written while I listened to a song called North. 1 is inspired by a character from a novel I'm working on, and 2 is just part of an idea that may one day become a novel, who knows.**

(I had to re-post this as poetry, instead of fiction)

Here is a little more randomness--fruit of my writing assignments for class. For this one, I had to take line from a poem I'd already written and write a new poem with it, and then take a line from the new one and do it again...

Chapter the Fourth

It was the day after Elvina had made her plans to depart, near noon.
Brodie fingered one end of the envelope Elvina had given him. People had begun to notice her absence by now, though no searches had been started, and no one would suspect she had left the castle altogether. Only he and Aiva knew the truth.
He bit the inside of his cheek. Elvina hadn’t told him expressly when to give her parents the letter, so he was depending on his own timing.