Take Heart

A large group

Of well-meaning individuals

Whose minds

Are bound to a mission,

In order to focus and harness

Their work energies,

In service to

A lofty ideal,

At the risk of their hearts

Losing connection,

Should they consider

Breaking free,

Can create invisible walls

So strong and solid

That they are perceived

Collectively as truth.

Those walls can result

In horrific actions, bloodshed, and loss.

The solution to this

Travesty of our race,

Is in the details

Mentioned above.

At the risk of their hearts

Losing connection

Our hearts are not so

Easily caged, you see.

We always love beyond

The limits of our minds.

Desire overrides intention

All day every day.

This is how the

harvesting of human energy works.

Autonomous, passionate,

powerful, mammals

Seek community

As their most natural state.

And will settle for sweet morsels

In the cage of their choice,

If they can remain in the vicinity of

The ones that they love.

Take heart powerful human!

Take YOUR heart,

And place it at the center

Of all that you choose.

Love cannot be contained

By any real or perceived wall.

Who do you love?

Who loves you?

Who can you love,

If you let your heart decide?

Close your eye holes.

Close your mouth.

Open your ears.

Feel your body’s longing to connect.

Now set your heart free.

And wait.

Wait for your heart.

To figure this complicated mess out.

Steady yourself when sweet morsels 

Within cages are offered.

Wait for your heart.

It will lead you—in its own perfect timing.

It will call you back

To the connection you can never lose.

Take heart powerful human!

Take YOUR heart,

And place it at the center

Of all that you choose.