Heart & Soul

My heart is the engine that keeps me going
Pumping blood throughout my body
Taking oxygen in, carbon dioxide out
Fueling the essential highway that keeps this frame of muscle, flesh, and bones operating.
It's straightforward, dependable.

A soul is more difficult to explain,
The essence of what it is to be human,
Whether it's for the best or for the worst.
But I know my soul consists of words and phrases, of stories that demand to be told
A million different lives fighting to burst forth from a frame that can't contain them.