The sign said <br />'The Shop of Dislocated Hearts' <br />and I went in. <br /> <br />Broken ones; <br />Repaired Ones; <br />Brand New Ones; <br />Small Ones; <br />Baby Ones; <br />all there on red shelving. <br /> <br />Who repairs Hearts? <br />Whose Hearts have been dislocated <br />or lost? <br />'Here' the voice said <br />'is the Most Important Place <br />in the Whole World.' <br /> <br />An Old Man <br />stood before me <br />saying <br />'everyday <br />I start out like this <br />and by night time I am <br />young again. <br /> <br />It has been this way ever since <br />from the Beginning of the Universe. <br />You can reverse time here <br />and hearts are that <br />Feeling Glue <br />which creates <br />new love <br />reverses bad ones; <br />all this done here. <br /> <br />Time goes backward to our youth' <br />he said <br />picking up a gnarled one <br />and held it up to light. <br /> <br />'Sixty five years old' <br />he said <br />peering at it intently. <br />'Now watch this.' <br /> <br />He sprinkled his Gold Dust <br />and the heart's <br />dull and dank arteries <br />unclogged and <br />began to beat <br />and beat. <br /> <br />The Old Man said <br />'New Grandchild.' <br /> <br />This one' <br />he said <br />pointing to another <br />which had a faint hum <br />'New Girlfriend' <br />'New Love' he said about another <br />'Reconciliation here.' <br /> <br />He walked the shelves <br />'Understanding for this one <br />and this one on the end <br />will be mine <br />by this evening.' <br /> <br />These' <br /> he said <br />pointing to a group <br />'came from the Lost and Found; <br />Lost no more.' <br /> <br />I came back that night <br />and the shop was gone <br />probably into <br />Yesterday.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heart-dislocation-repair-shop/
