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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2008-07-16 03:46 AM


The heart is pumping hard these days
as the mind in full stride runs  
forward, out, and up, up, up,
to where the love begins.

I know ‘tis so because I feel
within the energy
but climb the stairs or walk a block
and the heart says, “That’s enough”.

The heart, you see, un-nourished
then simply shrivels up
and who would think that arteries
would know to block the blood?

They know because they’ve worked a lot
needlessly, it seems,
to fill the heart with things that last
but finally they know
the heart must atrophy
before a person feels.

So come the days of cut and slice
and, lo behold, new arteries
to start again the same heart
that again will atrophy
when the carriers of light and love
know they’re working needlessly.

And so of me and mine within
I know ‘tis time to still the heart
when the mind runs forward, on,
and looks full into the knowing
heart cannot make a brand new start
without the things that last!

Helen / 16 July 2008


© Copyright 2008 Helen - All Rights Reserved
Ericc
Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178

1 posted 2008-07-16 03:07 PM


This is a wonderful write Helen.
Your pen has been magic!

Eric

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2008-07-16 03:33 PM


Thank you, Eric.  Magic pen?  Nope, 'tis just the fingers dancing to the tune of heart.  
XGarapanX
Senior Member
since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435
Antarctica
3 posted 2008-07-16 04:23 PM


Well it's an awesome dance. And what's really beginning to dawn on me is how closely English speaking peoples think so simularly in so many different ways. This could have been written by any American woman going by the essence and thought relations. Wonderful.

·´~`·­»Garapan«­·´~`·

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