Feeling my heart

Heart I feel you so often

Rising like an ocean in my chest

Sounding out your waves of distress

When rocky conditions

Set the waves to high

Then it is I feel the flood

As I struggle under this heavy weight

Of a deluge of feeling

That so often leaves my being reeling

On uncoiling like a snake

This is when I most need

To keep my breathing calm

To know that I can flow

With in breath

And out breath

Holding fast to neither

Rather just surrendering to the feeling

But this is not always too easy to do

When I feel the waves are rising

So ocean being of my heart

Help me also

Seek those times of peace and calm

And sweet relief

When I can gaze upon

A tranquil lake or pond

And feel the breath of wind

As gorgeous magpies sing

Their song of praise to life

Knowing that often heaven is not that very far away

From places of suffering and hell

That so often set up their

Thunder rumblings

Deep inside my stormy heart