Victims of the Heart


    Not fireflies but lightning-bugs,


    lonesomely flickering in the dark.


    Their static-charged wings


    cursing them


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    But for the few that fail to heed


    cruel Nature’s warning


    bolts,


    paired bodies fall to


    cratered grass.


    Victims of the heart.


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    There''s a character minimum —


    500 letters? I don''t know.


    I''m adding words until I hit it,


    but in a spoiler so it won''t show.


    Because I


    am a very serious poet.