When you open your heart

When you open your heart to love

An ocean is there

Quietly breathing

You become an open field

Of outpouring and receiving

Where nothing is held back

Here within the avalanche of love

Your mind opens to truths

The pain in your heart

Had to deny before

Thinking it could lie or pretend

All of the past hurting had no effect

When you open your heart to love

Memories of other times you were

Wounded by love

Come to mind

Be kind to yourself

As you take this

The most vulnerable of steps

There is a way to love

And then live again

Even if truly loving means sadness and loss

If you have a heart open to love

You will allow the fall

Into the soul empowering

Of tender open hearted vulnerability

Knowing that without the capacity to love

Human living

Does truly become

A yawning void

A swirling sea

Of mass confusion