HeartLines

A Sacred Heart University Student-Run Literary Magazine

“The Soliloquy of the Sea & The Reflection of the Robin” – Broderick Prendergast & Jakub Zujewski

A frigid summer night. Crash! Crash! Crash!

No response.

Slapped, smacked, chopped, hooked, toyed with all day.

Things to be said but nobody to talk to.

The seeming inability to empathize creates a wall.

Retreating back, but belting forth for an ear.

CRASH! Crash! crash!

The sound pains one, yet pleasures another.

Subject to self servitude; Used for unassuming amusement

A warm winter morning. Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!

A vibrant reply.

Embraced, cuddled, kissed, acknowledged, reminiscing with all day

Many inputs that were pushed away by delusion

Emotions crumbling down on one another

Pushing through, savoring every moment spent

chirp! Chirp! CHIRP!

The song echoing joy, yet disturbing others.

Accomplice to a fresh venture; used for occupying one’s loneliness

Alone

at last

Longing

for Someone

Someone to

come

But

the right

someone

Not anyone

Together

at last

Admiring

one another

Another time to

embrace

But

something wrong

another

Thought to be the one

The water in my eyes I see the reflection of the sunrise

A quick flashback to the pink skies, we shared memories.

Her laughter kissed the stars, her fury scorched the moon

I was lost in her skies, my wings clipped too soon.

Sacrificing time for accuracy.

If only I realized in my first life before my second came along

The need for a match who is miscible

The right conch to sing my same song

Holding onto every moment including failure

Knowing this would be the life to settle for and ask for no more

Having never needed the missing puzzle piece

The perfect mockingbird bird sing my same song

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