When Your True Heart - Diane La Rae Bodach

[Lawrence Robinson]

When Your True Heart

When you find yourself 
at the bottom of the ocean
no one has to say,
"Swim! Swim for your life
        toward the light!"

Your arms, your heart, your legs
your lungs, your brain, your eyes,
every part of you is fixated
on that point of light,

and your body works
with all the efficiency of which
it is capable
to propel you toward it.

When your true heart
reveals to you
that which you really want,

though a lioness stand at the gate
with teeth like snow white daggers
pointing up and down,

she will not keep you from entering.

Ancient chains of clinging, judgment,
"This is how I do it," mind, and fear
slip away like silk off silk.

Open to your true heart
and the Surging Tide that
knows no season
will fill you up with Joy.

When you stop being 
separate and can speak 
from inside things,

all of creation will be 
nothing but mouth singing
songs of joy and praise.

	- Diane La Rae Bodach
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