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desert heart
by rc dewinter
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- © 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
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Reviving the Heart
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Falling in love:
such a soft and easy phrase,
like tumbling into a featherbed
or a stack of newmown hay.
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But when one has been without –
the heart a desert, dry as dust –
falling in love’s akin to the violence of birth:
everything’s narrowed,
shut up tight,
needing to be forced open –
not to expel, but to accept the thrust of emotion.
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It’s not like riding a bike, you know.
You can forget how to love,
both in the giving and receiving.
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Falling in love – like birth – is work,
not a cheap and easy talent nor a skill once learned
that snaps right back the next time you attempt it.
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The heart has no muscle memory.
Once neglected, the elasticity evaporates
and leaves a barren chamber.
You can’t jumpstart it.
No storebought wire will send forth revivifying juice.
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Rather, the heart must be massaged,
persistently but gently, from inside and out;
coaxed back to life through effort, perseverance.
Falling in love – after so long a drought – is work. ~ © 2011 RC deWinter
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Claret cup cacti in spring in the high desert of Pawnee Butte National Grasslands.
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