{"id":511,"date":"2023-04-15T05:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigittepoetry.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:39:27","slug":"the-heart-das-herz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/the-heart-das-herz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart &#8211; Das Herz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ein Organ, einem Dreieck \u00e4hnlich,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">die linke Seite etwas gr\u00f6\u00dfer als die rechte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">arbeitet es Tag f\u00fcr Tag, Stunde um Stunde<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sekunde auf die Sekunde, ohne Unterlass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">h\u00e4lt uns am Leben, bis zum letzten Schlag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Und dazu muss es noch viel mehr leisten,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">soll unsre Gef\u00fchle und Gedanken beherbergen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ist entweder warm oder kalt, weit oder eng<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Und ab und zu wird es sogar gebrochen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-was es oh Wunder, doch immer \u00fcberlebt-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ach du armes Herz, lie\u00dfe man dich nur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in Ruhe schlagen und deinen Dienst verrichten,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">und uns am Leben halten,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">statt in Millionen Handy Texten als Symbol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">unsres Selbsts verschickt zu werden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026\u2665\u2665\u2665\u263a\u263a\u263a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dad6932a9ab7dc43bb0b1a20e100bf67 wp-block-paragraph\">You are an organ, similar to a triangle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a928f8db76130141b78990f23f760241 wp-block-paragraph\">the left side a bit larger than the right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6a731207b1c87849873e2bb41b5bdc75 wp-block-paragraph\">working day after day, hour after hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-78591e8e18a1674989917bfc0b2e6658 wp-block-paragraph\">second per second, unceasingly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-092e5b384f7e29ffe8e4a7adbe6b2576 wp-block-paragraph\">keeping us alive until its last heartbeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ce07839b22a2df7fd6e21e7758c79720 wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, it has to fulfill so much more,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63152f25500d47aa6c02a4411ec7f760 wp-block-paragraph\">giving home for our thoughts and feelings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30d157324cd95fee78e147014ea15433 wp-block-paragraph\">told to be warm or cold, wide or narrow,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8dfe028aa6db6670577e55a9e09a1e2c wp-block-paragraph\">strong or week, and you are broken at times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9d518d8937c466a6544a2794f973cbf4 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; which you survive miraculously-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49555fcccf5fcc20874992a89f3ed36b wp-block-paragraph\">Dear heart, if you would only be left<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b73c0c1721c9d96970c6bb9aa00aad42 wp-block-paragraph\">doing your job, to keep us alive,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-19a84f49206edd393046002e021a0523 wp-block-paragraph\">instead, you are posted in millions of text messages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e6b49d16e549bd6e1689ba9726f7612 wp-block-paragraph\">per handy as a symbol of ourselves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026.\u2665\u2665\u2665\u263a\u263a\u263a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-29c171fddb5b536fbf4ec0639a3ecca5 wp-block-paragraph\">nevertheless, the poor hard working heart has been abused since ever\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ein Organ, einem Dreieck \u00e4hnlich, die linke Seite etwas gr\u00f6\u00dfer als die rechte arbeitet es Tag f\u00fcr Tag, Stunde um [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanpoetry.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}