The Heart

The Heart

The heart sees and feels what it wants to

Looks through the rose colored glasses
Ignores signs

The mind is more wary

Sensing that something is too good to be true
Ignores the heart

Asks questions

Does research
Seeks truth
Knowing it is better to hurt now rather than later

The heart is angry

The heart makes up excuses
The heart still thinks there is possibility

But the mind knows

No possibility here
But possibility eventually
Just not this time, this place, this person

The heart sees the house of cards tumble down

And knows
And knows the mind is right
Again

And the heart cannot function

Cannot take another rejection
And all former rejections and failures come to the surface

And the mind starts wrapping the heart

In gauze and plaster

It will take some time to dry
But then the heart will be protected
And will be able to function
Until the next time

And the heart vows never to love

And never to let her guard down
And never to be weak

The heart will hide in the plaster fortress
And fortify it with bricks, mortar, barbed wire
The heart will chant a litany
Never let your guard down
Never fall in love
Never imagine possibility
Never get hurt
Again

But the mind knows

The heart will find cracks in the fortress
And love
Again

 Copyright 2010.  Lori Dominick