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.