My Big Heart

“You have such a big heart” 

my heart is big

is forgiving is my heart 

and pleasing, too 

oh, overgrown lusus naturae 

swollen in my chest 

overrun with stretch marks 

accounting for their own 

scarce square footage 

of valves and blood and 

love and understanding 

grief is love 

with nowhere to go 

said someone somewhere sometime

you may be out of space but

my heart is big 

always with a spare room 

a bed made up 

of clean sheets (your favorite) 

waiting for you