The HeART of the Matter ©03

While the water laughed all around me…
And the wind opened its mouth to sing this song to me…

Again...

“I was moving backward on a forward highway…
Shall I question ...

Again?

If this is what makes me whole?”
That is, for me, the heart of the matter.

This…
This thing, I am tilted toward…

Is it a renaissance?

Regeneration?

Can this phoenix bend the river’s current to what needs fulfillment?
For me, it is the heart of the matter.

Leading a satisfied life is my heart’s dream.
Throughout my soul are songs reaching for what beyond what I settled for.
Suppressing no more as the bough breaks
The matters of the heart, is for me.


No longer fine with regurgitated whine.
A sad, sad song spinning its wheel...
All that it kicked up was dirt…
But going nowhere in so much hurry.

Can I do it?

Will you do it?
Turn on the light!

Banish the shadows, so I can shine.
That is the heart of the matter.

Let me whisper loudly from my heart’s recesses.
I need to walk proudly graced with dignity.
And preserve all the beauty that is going forwardly through the shining waters.
It is I, the heart that matters.

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