When you listen to a recording of a heart, you hear a soft double thump. That’s because the heart pushes out blood and right away pulls other blood in. Put your ear up to someone’s chest and listen very closely. You’ll hear thump-thump…thump-thump…thump-thump. It’s easy to understand what happens as some blood goes out and some blood comes in. But what happens in the middle of a heartbeat?

My imagination ponders tiny things like that because I like to see what I can create with the ideas. That’s how I’ve come up with so many stories and songs for kids. I take an ordinary thing like a heartbeat…and look for a story. And when you look hard enough, you can almost always find one. Even if it’s just a short story, or a funny song, or a poem, it’s an adventure to find it and tell it.

That’s how I came up with today’s short Rhyme Time. I closed my eyes to picture a heart…gently beating through the day. Then I saw it get a bit larger as it got ready to push blood out one side. Then I could see the other side open and let more blood in. It was all in slow motion. And as I saw the two sides I realized…wow…here I am…

In the middle of a heartbeat
Something tiny stirs…
Like the sound that a kitten makes
When it purrs.
Your blood goes whooshing
From head to toe,
And you might just wonder
What makes it go.
There’s a code inside you,
And it’s yours alone…
A gift from a King
On a beautiful throne.
Hold your breath and be still…
Listen close, you’ll hear…
In the middle of a heartbeat…
A love so dear.

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