hmmm

Vulnerability

dismantle the wall, brick by brick, find the key to unlock the door, tread through the field of long weeds like arms holding you back, find a safe, pick the lock, inside is a heart in a protective bubble of plastic with duct tape around it for reinforcement. Pull out your scalpel, slice the plastic coating (ever so gently) peel it back, and reveal the throbbing, delicate, intricate and tiny bundle of muscle and veins, ventricles and tissue, soft and tender as veal, fragile and helpless as a premature baby, a caterpillar taken out of its cocoon too soon...

being thus exposed, even the gentlest breeze can cause pain, even the thought of the potential for damage makes it cringe, this most delicate of organs.