Just South of the Duodenum

The song comes from deep down. It originates just below the spleen, next to the turn of the large intestine. It was lodged there when your heart broke so long ago you have forgotten the particulars. What you have to do now is let the song rise up from down there in its steaming fold of living grief and let it find sound and light. There is sadness, sure, but beauty too. You survived, my dear. You survived. And now you can learn to love again.