One Heart: Poet/Hero Franz Wright

This is my favorite poem of all time. I found it at a low point of my life in 2006. Thank God for Franz Wright.

One Heart (From Walking to Martha's Vinyard)
Note: Martha's Vinyard is an island...

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It is late afternoon and I have just returned from
the longer version of my walk nobody knows
about. For the first time in nearly a month, and
everything changed. It is the end of March, once
more I have lived. This morning a young woman
described what it’s like shooting coke with a baby
in your arms. The astonishing windy and altering light
and clouds and water were, at certain moments,
You. There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

Thank You for letting me live for a little as one of the
sane; thank You for letting me know what this is
like. Thank You for letting me look at your frightening
blue sky without fear, and your terrible world without
terror, and your loveless psychotic and hopelessly lost
with this love