The Heart of Darkness

Pulled up her purple sleeve

Her appendage dangling from it's end

Several cards fell out & some coinage

She bent over to pick them up

When askance and askew!

Something clattered to the ground..

Out of the darkness something on a chain

The suspense was absolutely insane!

Pulling it up, up, up into the light

The chain glittered in the dusky night

An object clinging to it's end

What was it, if you could only see

The purple sleeve rushed about

The appendage held the thing out

And there it was, the blackest heart

Cradling flowers in a bouquet....