"And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars"
The Heart of a Woman - Georgia Douglas Johnson | Alka-Seltzer Cold
The Poem
The Heart of a Woman - Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
The Beverage
Alka-Seltzer Cold
Was going to write something clever here this week. I can't. I have a cold. My brain is a blob of slugs. Alka-Seltzer Cold (dissolved in a mug of water) is keeping me alive.