Now If You Call Upon This Heart

Now if you  call upon my heart

This one last time

If you  could take this one last breath

Could you employ it in the role

Of love

For her

Maybe it is time now

Maybe it is some divine vow

One  fulfills 

Off handed,

Like housekeeping 

The pesky business of showing

You care

When it is not in vogue

Or at least shows  that they do.

For fear of some hollow  

Retribution

The ever present  inconsequential whirligig 

Of social opprobrium. 

Climb down if you dare

The coast is not clear 

There is risk.

Yet I know you have it in you

To bleed when called upon.

The assignment all beautiful people

Eventually fulfill. 

It is as it  ever was

you and I  connected

In ways  intimate and new

And what you do

Becomes what I do

And so it is for this odd  moment