Heart connection

My longing for connection

Lived so deeply and unconsciously inside of me

That I became a stranger to myself

Looking everywhere for eyes to see

Into the heart of me

A heart that ached

But that I felt I had to put away

So long ago

When you said to me

Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve

And No

Surely you don’t really feel that way

I thought that hearts lived here in the centre of our chest

Reminding us always of what was best or worst for us

But when you told me my heart was all amiss

I learned to deny

What I felt inside

And bury the longing to be seen and truly known

So now when you finally see into the heart of me

Why do I run?

Or as I stop to turn back again

And finally take the risk to open myself fully

Then long buried tears start to fall

As my heart deeply recognises

What it longed for all this time

And sends the information to my eyes

How sweet it is

To allow a connection

That is so rare

And full of sunshine