FRAGILE HEARTS

Why?

Why are our hearts so fragile?

What is the reason?

Why can’t I be tougher?

Why do we feel like we feel...deeply?

So deeply we go crazy.

Our hearts are fragile so that they can

Crack open.

Cracking open alters us,

Or we’d all be the same.

We’re all different –

Less cracks, more cracks,

Clean cut and simple,

Long, drawn out and jagged cracks,

All exposing the soft underbellies of who we are.

It’s brutal, this cutting and cracking,

Cutting and cracking.

How we deal, builds who we are.

You, me, them.

So this is our world:

Cracking to break open.

Cracking to cry.

Cracking to change.

Cracking to feel more fully.

Cracking to release our souls

To the raw elements of life.

Cracking to live and learn.

Cracking so that we can keep on

Cracking

Open,

Even when we don't want to.