{"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-1 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-2 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-3 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-4 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-5 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-6 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-7 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-8 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-9 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-10 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-11 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-12 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-13 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-14 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-15 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 Stunde Sekunde auf die Sekunde, ohne Unterlass h\u00e4lt uns am Leben, bis zum letzten Schlag. 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