too many distractions that have

become habits keep your mind

from embracing the space that

it requires

 

crowding in and taking over like

the buzzing of a full hive bees

 

adding in one by one

until it becomes a roar insistent

 

while your heart

whispers fervent

for peace.

 

only you can cut off these things

and make space for your heart

to speak once again.

 

this may be painful at first,

allowing space for the unpleasant,

 

but is a process less painful

than the shoving down of all

things big and small that plead

for your attention

 

until your heart like the house

of a hoarder messy becomes,

one teetering tower away from

disaster imminent.

 

so, take steps in the present, today

to listen to your ever-beating heart,

 

for whether you are aware of it or

not, it is the source of all things

true, the essence of who you are

and it will be heard,

one way

or another.

 

Heather Pound 2023

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