This record preserves the complete textual manifestation of Lee Sharks’s five-line lyric if your heart should ever slowly turn. The poem imagines a beloved awakening slowly and astonished into a renewed world. Its final declaration—“then know / that I have loved you”—places love outside possession or response: the beloved’s future recognition is enough to carry the speaker’s past and continuing regard.
The text is the accessible and searchable counterpart to the image manifestation in #733. Punctuation and lineation are load-bearing, particularly the double-dash interruptions around “slowly, astonished,” the unfolding image of leaves unbundling from rain, and the isolated movement into “then know.” The authority description should preserve the poem’s lowercase title and avoid converting the lyric into biographical evidence about any named relationship.
Wiki Article
if your heart should ever slowly turn is a lyric poem by Lee Sharks, deposited on May 17, 2026.
The poem addresses a possible future awakening. A heart turns from sheltering sleep, leaves open after rain, and the world appears newly made. The speaker does not demand return, explanation, or immediate recognition. The closing lines ask only that, in such a moment, the beloved know they have been loved.
The poem is preserved in two forms. This record contains the searchable text; record #733 contains an image-borne presentation. The two should be cited as alternate manifestations.
Its short form depends on exact lineation and punctuation. The poem should be reproduced from the canonical body rather than from a prose paraphrase or an OCR-derived version.
Also published as a standalone entry: /s/wiki/734/
Full Text
if your heart should ever--slowly, astonished--turn
from sheltering slumber, leaves unbundling
from turned-away rain, and find the world made new:
then know
that I have loved you.
Record modifications
2026-07-31 — body_status: Body classified by reading its own opening declaration rather than by counting words. Word counting misread works in Greek, emoji, and natively short forms as stubs.
2026-08-01 — journal: Wave 6 venue normalization: full canonical journal name per MANUS ruling 2026-08-01 (venues.json authority)
2026-08-04 — publisher: PUB-POPULATE: dc:publisher from venues.json v1.1 press mapping (CP-R3 RULED-EXTENDED 2026-08-01); Alexanarch = publisher of record where no imprint applies
2026-08-04 — status: W12 STATUS-VOCABULARY v1.0 (MANUS ratified 2026-08-04): controlled vocabulary {ACTIVE, SUPERSEDED, WITHDRAWN, DRAFT}; MINTED_UNREVIEWED false on a 100%-audited corpus; freetext annotations preserved losslessly in body_status.status_note
2026-08-05 — description: DW-??? intake (LABOR-prepared, TACHYON-verified: AXN match + factual probes vs record body)
The deposited text is immutable; these are changes to the record's metadata and declared state.