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.