Heart and Mind Marriage

Weathering currents
from birth’s ebb
to aging’s tide.

From embryo on,
purging upon the rocks of reality
brings many uninvited necessities.

Out of the womb,
we're held high,
slapped,
smiled at,
and smothering us with assurance
we’re alive.

Oh, how generously we’re

Cuddled,
pampered,
protected,
educated,
extricated from family protection,
exonerated of past mistakes,
and finally thrust toward the unknown.

Then…

And only then,
one feels the real weathering,
when currents unpredictable

dash one between waves

and lapping shorelines.

Oh how dependable the heart,
when plunged into foreign waters,
where coming of age,
and the merciless reality of awakening,
often beneath the mind’s darkest depths,
finds maturing a constant gasping for air,
gradually realizing wisdom waits in silent repose,
a flesh and blood catharsis of our frustrating struggle.

To be denied such resolve,
is to not know of infinite breath,
the conviction that another kind of existence
is forever at the ready to begin.

Heart and mind exchange vows

knowing the allowance of time

gently casts the ashes of fate to the wind

in order to prepare us for the next chapter

of passion’s infinite pulsations

undulating up beside fathomless lessons.