Tell Your Heart to Beat Again

Your heart pours out,

While your chest is ripped open

Tell your heart to beat again

Command your lungs to expand

Don’t rely on some machine to force air in and out

Just breathe, just breathe

A tear pushes past your tight shut eyes

Your hand gives mine a small squeeze

I’m not giving up,

My world is falling apart,

Shattered, like never before

From glass to sand,

I cannot be repaired

Hold on and don’t let go

As I’m pushed out of the room,

I hear the flatline, as the doctor calls code blue

My body shakes and aches uncontrollably

I drop to my knees and beg and plead with God to release you back to me

They compress your heart again and again,

Can you feel anything, are you coming through?!

Tell your heart to beat again,

Just breathe, if only just once, just breathe

C’mon let me hear your heartbeat go boom boom,

Let the rhythm vibrate through your body

As if it were an alarm, a defibrillator

Please just breathe, just breathe

Do not allow your ears to be deafened by silence,

Please make the machine go beep, beep

Tell your heart to beat again,

Just breathe, just breathe