Badly Bruising

Have you ever laid on someone’s 

chest and heard their heartbeat?

It’s godspeed.

you could fall asleep 

to the tempo it makes

for each breath 

that the person takes

when there’s aches 

under my skin,

all I’d have to do 

is closely listen

I could imagine a 

place with no agony,

no hostility or such a 

thing as badly bruising

even if you’d hit your 

knees to the ground, 

there’d be 

no contusion

there’d be no swelling 

or black and blueness

the sound is the best kind of

medicine, a way of healing,

it helps to make life’s 

problems easier to deal with

- Leah Rae