Style: Hip Hop / Rap — storytelling, mid tempo

[Intro — spoken]

Georgina had been a librarian for forty years...

She organized everything — every book in its place...

But her heart had its own schedule...

[Verse 1]

Georgina kept her life in perfect order every day,

Crossword in the morning — garden in the May,

Seventy-two years old and sharp as she could be,

But something in her chest was fluttering — wouldn't let her free.

Not painful — just a flutter — racing kind of fast,

Happened for a few hours — then it wouldn't last,

Went away on its own — came back the next week,

Georgina logged it in her notebook — trying hard to seek.

[Pre-Chorus]

Dizzy when it happened — couldn't catch her breath,

Not enough to go to hospital — not close enough to death,

But the fluttering was frequent now — nearly every day,

Georgina finally called her doctor — couldn't look away.

[Chorus]

Georgina's heart is fluttering — fast and very steady,

Upper chambers firing fast — lower ones not ready,

Two to one — three to one — the ratio's not right,

Georgina's heart is marching — to a different beat tonight.

[Verse 2]

Doctor hooked her up — the tracing showed it plain,

Saw tooth pattern on the baseline — coming back again,

Upper chambers racing — two hundred fifty beats,

Lower ones responding to every other — that's the feats.

Not quite the same as the irregular kind — more regular and set,

Blood still pooling in the pocket — stroke risk — don't forget,

Doctor scored her risk — the number came back high,

Blood thinner started that same day — no reason to ask why.

[Bridge]

Rate control first — bring the bottom number down,

Medication slowing what gets through — less to go around,

Rhythm procedure offered — a line of burning heat,

Inside the upper chamber — stopping the repeat.

Georgina chose the procedure — one time — done and gone,

Rhythm back to normal — crosswords carrying on,

Blood thinner stayed regardless — stroke risk doesn't sleep,

Georgina's heart in order now — rhythm hers to keep.

[Outro]

Georgina tends her garden now — heart beating in its time,

Logs her pulse each morning — everything in line,

Blood thinner in the cabinet — crossword on the chair,

Georgina's heart is marching now — going somewhere fair.

“Georgina’s Story”