My heart is Caesar.
It doesn't listen to me.
It goes for battles, uncalled,
painting itself in the blood
of friends, now made foes.
"Et tu Brute" it does whisper,
at forked roads and at
forgotten footprints.
It doesn't own an armor,
yet clashes with a sword.
It bleeds in poetry, and
sounds like the gasping
prayers of a distressed Calpurnia.
And of course, it died.
It died.
It died, not because it
didn't stop at home.
It died because it did,
but not at home.
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