The Girl with Heart on Her Sleeve

Artist: Ankit Mudgil (https://www.instagram.com/the_real_ankit_mudgil/)

There she goes, the girl 

With her heart on her sleeve,

Across the green meadows she weaves,

In her head a thousand dreams. 

And as she is dancing by, the wind

Blows off the heart and sets it upon a tree;

So, she takes it in her stead to grow it till

It’s big enough to be free. 

The tree once cared for and nourished 

Decides to branch the heart out to bees,

Since it no longer desires her deeds

To keep itself gay and green. 

The girl now a caretaker of the bees

Decides to help them collect nectar sweet,

To keep them fed and keep them glee 

For she truly loves them she feels. 

Nonetheless, the bees turn out ungrateful ,

Sucking on her concern but remaining deceitful.

They decide to give her heart a sting painful 

And fly it down to the stream unfaithful.

The stream bends in every direction

Taking the broken heart at its discretion;

However not choosing any side for compassion,

It tears the heart apart in its succession.

A piece of the heart swims to the tree,

A piece just floats to the bees,

Another piece in the ebbing water sits 

While yet another to the girl’s sleeve sticks.

Now with the broken piece she roams, 

A thousand question in her head form;

Should she keep the torn heart locked away in a dorm? 

Or take a plunge, risking the drown?