The Heart's Attribute

A Heart is a strong muscle.

It has the sole purpose 

of filling every other part of you.

We have attributed this to be Emotion.

Blood is thicker than Water.

Blood is but more than a flicker 

in the eyes of an enamored daughter.

Like the liquor once prohibited,

it comes back by popular demand,

and when it does,

it is
Quicker than The Slaughter

and Harder than the Silence.

It is All-Consuming as the Sun, 

and a newness becomes visible --
piercing, full-fledged, and sweet;

and this Light can be blinding.
But as the heart does,
we adjust

and move with It

as It moves us.

And we can only dare to say Its name
if we trust.

Closure

This one took a while to write
partly because it took a while to realize

I thought I still loved you
I thought I still needed you
I thought I still wanted you

But time helped me realize I was only lying to myself,
keeping myself from experiencing happiness again

And then it happened
We reconnected
Or so it seemed
because there was really no connection anymore..

Perhaps that is sad
Perhaps the past can still have a glimmer of beauty to it
Perhaps who you were when we first met will continue to live on in my memory

But it was today that I realized the past is
insurmountably
non-existent

And I am so relieved

I am ready to live again
Today
Every day
Every moment
In every beautiful, God-given way.

Thank you for letting me see--

I have always deserved better.