Wednesday, June 16, 2004
A Feathery Token
Let the heart
speak its own desire.
When it is sad,
do not force it
to sing hosannas and hymns of joy.
And when it is leaping upward
in its rapture of
a newly discovered passion,
do not enroll it
in a choir practicing
lamentations for a world
which is falling apart.
The heart knows what it wants:
Listen.
This advice is free,
dropped lightly into your palm
like a feathery token
from a beautiful unseen bird.
copyright, Dorothy Walters
speak its own desire.
When it is sad,
do not force it
to sing hosannas and hymns of joy.
And when it is leaping upward
in its rapture of
a newly discovered passion,
do not enroll it
in a choir practicing
lamentations for a world
which is falling apart.
The heart knows what it wants:
Listen.
This advice is free,
dropped lightly into your palm
like a feathery token
from a beautiful unseen bird.
copyright, Dorothy Walters
