The Old Torture Chamber Of The Heart

John Horan
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readJan 1, 2019

--

I came with a wrench

To dismantle

The old torture chamber

In my heart

Where I tested myself out

To see what I could take

To see if I would break

To see what a human being

Is made of.

Now it’s come to

A different time.

A time of self forgiveness.

The holy healing wound

Must finally be salved

The guillotine taken apart

And life flows easy once again

To the beating of my heart.

Like my poems? Check out my novel A Vagrant At The House Of Love.

--

--

John Horan
Poets Unlimited

Writer of novels, scripts and poems. Teaches meditation. Thinks too much. https://linktr.ee/johnhoranpoetry