Heartlight

Going to meet a lover...

Heartlight

 

Your heart sends out a light

      yhat cannot be denied

      by me nor anyone who sees you.

 

I’m not sure I like that either,

      for I like to always be

      the one in control.

 

Yet the unfilled space inside me

      Recognizes that, at last,

      Its 32-year ache has been eased "

and can eternally be ended

      if I can just learn to trust

      the source.

 

By the Spirit!

      I’ve been so long denied,

      so cruelly hurt, so often!

How can I ever voluntarily

      make myself vulnerable again?

 

By the Spirit . . .

      please allowme the chance "

      one more time . . . ?

 

-Jo-  Decenber 30, 1986, 8:45 p.m.

Cleveland,  Tennessee

Scottish Inn on the way to Rome, New York