Your Heart Can Take It

Much like when
You can’t imagine

Lifting the weight required

For a final rep

One more burpee

Tacked onto an impossible set

Another pushup

Supported by shaking arms

And you push through anyway

Certain that your heart
Will explode

You learn this

Your heart can take it

In the same way
That your heart
Can take the pain

Of one more devastation

Of a rejection

Unexpected and deep

Of a disappointment

That has all the signs
Of being the one
That finally breaks you apart

Your heart can take it

Your heart can take it in class

Your heart can take it in life

Your heart beats

With a strength
All its own

Holding together

The one
It beats
Inside of