Reconsider your broken heart - Sally Churgel

[Larry Robinson]

Reconsider your broken heart

Turn back and reconsider your broken heart
Reconsider your brokenness
When the vase tumbles from the counter
And breaks beyond repair
You reach for the rose, the iris, the ferns
Pull them from the wreckage of glass
Place them lovingly into a new vase
The flowers reconfigure into a new formation
Perhaps more beautiful than before
Refreshed and rearranged

Flowers that once thrust their roots down into the earth
Gain strength from their arduous
Search for nourishment through hard clay and stones
Plucked from their habitat, resilient
They reach anew to morning rays

You are not your brokenness any more than
the flowers are the broken vase
When life leaves you cracked and scarred
You can become sharp, frayed, rigid
Instead love the disrepair of your heart
Let your roots find nourishment in
Faith and love and trust

When you reach for your desires you must
Break free from beliefs that hold you back
Most importantly the belief that you are broken
In any form
Consider your heart strong or weak,
Open or closed, scarred or beautiful
Cracked or pristine but
Do not consider your heart to be broken
At least not broken beyond use
Break up with your self-imposed ruler
Break your rules
Break your vows
Break open
Break open again
Break everything but your heart


     - Sally Churgel