The Backaway Heart

The crazy heart keeps rushing headlong into full disclosure.
Wanting to jump into the well and see what is really down there.
But thoughts circle the heart like ropes,
and pull it back to neutral, saying:
"Don't be wild.
You don't really want to know answers to deep questions!"

Sensible friends will advise you to leave that insane
digging around to archeologists.
Take the nice path of accountants and grocers.
Reliable. Steady. Seasonal.

Avoidance comes from the tug of war between what's hidden and revealed.
Between what you long to know and what you are afraid is true.
Haven't you heard by now that your own careful measures can be undone?
Tigers wait in bushes all over the world.

Surely, you have cried over one or two.
Your whole body longs to be reset to factory default.
When you feel the urge to suppress - lean in.
To acknowledge a form does not mean to indulge it.

Imagine the day when your own dear heart breaks free!