Poem by R.M. Dolin, July 29, 2025
Have You Seen My Shattered Heart
I’m pretty damn sure
I left
what’s left
of my shattered heart
in a place I no longer travel,
a treasured sanctuary of what was,
where the long-ago of yesterday
comforts me with fondness,
quenching my thirst for
things so casually disregarded.
That’s how it’s been
and still remains,
an imaginary hope
where I’ll find you holding my heart,
ushering my return.
From the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life – The Book of Issac,“ Issac finds this poem buried in one of Darwin’s journals. He’s captivated by its melodic riddle and rereads it often; each time allowing the words to lead to different outcomes, which causes him to wonder, what led Uncle Darwin to compose such tragic lines. Issac doesn’t know who Darwin’s writing about any more than he knows how their story is ultimately resolved, which is why outcomes must be continually re-imagined.
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