By Manoela Torres
This silly little heart
Beats and breaks for you
Never learning when to stop
Forever figuring what to do
Whether you go
Whether you stay
This heart will grow wide
Day after day
Loving and losing
Was never the game
A heart doesn't survive on love
It's feathery hope
That has us jump off the cliff
Flying then falling
Again and again
Manoela Torres is a Brazilian writer and translator who graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English and Creative Writing. She dedicates her time to crafting editorials, fiction, and poetry, and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction at The New School. She has been previously published in Eunoia Review, The New School Free Press, The Bloomin’ Onion, and Scars Magazine.
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