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A Heart Needs No Metaphor
Poetry prevents one from playing
Smart or the know-it-all
For the smartest often ends up
The foolest of fools
Stop looking for an equivalent
For the heart outside yourself
A pearl? Emptiness? An engine?
None of them works as a Heart
A heart dwells where heart is suppose to
Location! Location! Location!
Even the business-minded learns this...
The most figurative might be “mirror”
Heart like a “mirror?”
Why not? A mirror reflects truthfully!
A mirror reflects All!
But a mirror remains a mirror
After the “objects” disappear
Passion? Love? Anger? Change?
What’s that?
Mirrors lack what hearts possess
Heart IS the metaphor
It cries, bleeds, and even reflects
When there is nothing to be “seen!”
Love and hate all come pounding in it!
Stop looking for an equivalent
For this unique organ
This Heart of your being that knows
Everything and nothing!
::Nov. 2005 |
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