voice of the heart

love ..... a beautiful myth we hold on to
with vague comprehensions.. fading lines..

meaningless.. each emphatically bemoaning
an emotion.. with no place in their lives..

sadly missing it's true import all along... accepting
the shadow.. ruing it's loss..

a bit of romanticism.. in a vain attempt at adding magic..
to an emotion that is Godly in itself..

misguided by eyes the tortured heart wishes
for that trust.. as handicapped it becomes a pawn
of the mind..

despairing of the dependency.. negating everything
natural to it...

the one voice that matters.. the only essential truth

ignored.. unheard.. dismissed

sadly conditioned into vague oblivion....

we always want to reach out to 'touch' someone.. to find God
to fill that 'emptiness'.. and yet..

when we feel that 'touch'.. that fulfillment..
what do we do.. questions.. more questions..
threshing the feeling into ragged tatters
that leave a shadow in our hearts

that one moment of just simple acceptance
drinking in.. getting high on the pure joy of it all
sadly always.. always eluding..

the yardstick gauging.. judging the emotion.. borrowed..
strange.. comprehensions falling way short
sometimes distorting.. showing the world a shadow
of what only our eyes can see...

as again we drown out the only voice that matters
unheeding .. mistrusting ourselves.. our own hearts..

embracing images in strange eyes that choke
a love they could never see or understand..

conditioned .. unable to grasp that something 'more'
we so desperately look for.. that chimera-
a mirage becoming the oasis we so essentially need
to give meaning to our lives....