The forensic mind invasively explores the bleeding heart and only finds tissue damage, but intuition already knew the metaphysical state of things, bodily stress caused by a broken heart leads to a truly broken heart, and a memorial stain that can't be bleached out at all.
The connection between mind and body are well known, even if we don't fully understand the details yet. It leads one to wonder if emotional placebos are not the worst thing in the world. Little white lies seem acceptable in this society and I wonder... Well, I guess perception IS reality! Then again, when we cease to believe in anything, whatever is left really is reality...
I should have been a faith healer... folks don't have to believe I am. well, 12 would be enough to start...
Anyway, this is an excellent piece, masterfully written and exposes a truth we intuit and no one is surprised to find the science behind it.
. absolutely brilliant ... poignant in a very under stated and subtle way ... and i know that "memorial stain" truly well ... also, i find that you have a unique way of incorporating scientific concepts ... and that too a variety of them ...
Kenneth The Poet is an optimist wrapped in the candy shell of moroseness and cynicism. He lives between the two parallels marked 46 and 49, all while living in the state marked 39. He pretends that he.. more..