Ready now.

Dedicated to Love…and loving hearts everywhere.

May you find the courage to love, starting with your Self, and more importantly, may you find the courage to let in the love of another who loves you courageously.

T

***

I think it was somewhere in your eyes

Which just happen to be my favorite color of a beautiful soul

That I saw truths of my own.

I realize that

This journey of life makes no sense to me

Unless we give…

But I don’t have much to give you right now

Except this heart I’ve managed to put back together

And it was just recently

That I found tape strong enough

To keep the broken pieces together

While it heals.

I know it’s not the best looking heart

But it works well, I swear!

It has much love to give…

To the one who won’t deliberately break it into all of those pieces again.

But who am I to tell you not to judge a book by its cover

When it is I who saw your heart

And decided that based on the tape

You’ve used to hold it together

Your heart wasn’t capable of loving or giving.

It is kind of ironic

That I thought that

Since what I actually saw, and I realize this now,

Is that your heart mirrors mine.

And it doesn’t matter how we’ve put our hearts back together

Until we each choose to put each of our hearts to use and love another

We won’t be able to heal completely

Because what loving another provides is that practice we need

To suture the pieces together mindfully.

And I cannot tell you whom to love

Or to even try

All I know is that my heart

Is ready to love a heart

That reflects mine.

Knowing that actually makes my heart smile.

Love, it is with joy in my soul

That I can honestly say

I am ready now.

I am in no rush,

So do take your time,

But when you’re ready,

I hope you accept the love

Of this imperfect heart of mine.