My heart : thrives on love

My heart always knew the way to go

The place to flow

But so often the dams I met

Were the undoing of me

There was a song my soul

Knew the notes to sing

Paths my feet knew the way to dance

To find the way to be free

Do not all of us just long

To be fully seen

And embraced in our joyful expression

Or held close in watchful tenderness

When our souls are suffering?

What happens to the child

Who has to hide her true feelings

To please a parent

Who has to trim herself down

To just the right size

So as not to be noticed

When the price of being noticed

Is to be hurt?

That child just has to hide

Has to find those places to be free

Where her heart can beat

And her soul can breathe

There is for some many of us

All of this confusion

Due to the lies and fears and delusions they

Tried to convince us were true

Such as that

To be strong

We must not hurt

We must not suffer

We better not feel

And most of all that we

Must put away our anger

Instead of listen to what it was trying to say

Oh God

Despair and dismay

How you rose in these the harshest

Of circumstances

So if all of this hurts now

Let it hurt

Let your heart know why it suffered

Do not continue to lie to yourself

It does not mean you will not find

The path to happiness

Only that you will accept the full and painful truth

Of what it means to be human

Listen to your heart

And do not let the seperate yourself

From the very best of your soul

And your inner knowing

The wisest par of you

That thrives on wisdom

And on love