Heart Space

Hardness around my heart space

Is melting in the rain

But then I resent is presence

And it hardens once again

It starts to travel up my throat

I want it to leave me

I cough and try to push it out

And again it constricts my heart tightly

I realize that in resenting it

I’m creating a vicious cycle

I need to fully befriend it

And my past with all it entails

I took this on many years ago

It protected me from permanent damage

And now I don’t need it anymore

But first it must communicate its message

So I open to the hardness now

I accept it and befriend it

I ask it what it has to say to me

I feel it deeply as in silence I sit