Calm Your Heart

Calm your heart down

let your heart walk steady through the world.

let your heart give gently and generously

let your heart break and bleed peacefully

let your heart rest.

let your heart beat

let the rythm of your steady heart be the song that calls to your beloveds

let your heart sing the tone

and when your heart sounds the alarm

calm your heart down.

love is not an urgent matter

life is not an urgent matter

now is when it is.

calmed, your heart will still leap

I swear to you

that steady gentle love plenty often stirs itself

into a frenzy of adoration

a prosperity of passion

the drama of play

and the panicked heart

moves startlingly

running off what is at peace.

scaring away what was

only ever there to love.