Heart Seeking...Anything

At first, there was only one.

It had its own beat, pumping along day after day.

It was reliable.

Did exactly what it was told to do.

There were deep breaths,

heavy peaks,

and slow patters.

It didn't really understand.

So it went along,

doing just what it should.

Feeling.

Feeling that this reacting, gasping, and beating wasn't only what it was meant for.

It reached.

Expanded.

Searched.

But how could it search?

What it did was important.

Every second, of every minute, of every hour.

Of every day.

It couldn't search if it didn't do what it was obligated to do.

But it wasn't enough anymore.

It wanted something different.

Something more.

Yet there was a warning,

one that made it skip a beat.

Something might happen.

and if that something happened,

it would be,

Devastated.

Incapacitated.

Broken.

Then how would it need to do the things it needed to do?

It might lose the beat.

Might fall right out of rhythm.

Then where would it be?

Warning.

Danger.

Caution.

One after another.

Over and over again.

But what if it didn't believe that?

Maybe it did, maybe it would.

Maybe all that would happen and it would be ruined.

Unable to fulfill the obligations deemed so important.

But one day,

just a moment.

A single second.

It no longer cared.

It knew. It always had.

It was right to seek.

Right to yearn.

Right to look outside this everyday pattern.

Be more.

Feel more.

After all,

It was right.

And now there were two.

Cautiously together.

Beating almost in time.