Why the Heart Beats

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Trapped, bound.
A withering, writhing monster
Beating endlessly
Against the pearly cages
That keep it there
until it gives up.
It bleeds
And the blood trickles down the corridor outside of its prison.
And that's really why
The heart beats
It's screaming for help

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