A Healing Knife

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          Have you ever heard of a heart  
 Once accepting of love, now coldly distant?    
   Once pristine, now tainted with distrust 
              And full of gunk inside?

              Now, it's unsure of itself,
    Playing it safe after being torn in half 
 One too many times, fearing yet another 
         Dose of misfortune's poison pill.

           Now afraid to unlock its door  
  And leave it ajar for love to walk back in. 
        May courage be a healing knife 
           That doctors this poor heart

               May unconditional love 
            Dissect it, drain its abscess, 
          Then, stitch it shut as a tailor 
                 Would a split seam.



Date posted: 04/02/2016

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Unseeking Seeker

Date: 3/27/2022 7:05:00 AM

A blocked heart may be healed only by grace in timeless time and yet unconditional love continues to wait for as long as it takes for the deluded soul to awake.

Christuraj Alex

Date: 3/27/2022 5:17:00 AM

Unconditional love does healing. Beautiful. Congratulations!

Edward Ibeh
Date: 3/27/2022 5:44:00 AM

Thank you very much, Christuraj:-)