THE UNCHANGING

I realized something
As you got dressed and
Were leaving there,
Tying up your boots
And haphazardly cleaning up
The broken bits of me scattered about.

‘My heart is unchanging — It will love you forever.’

When you return,

It will be there for you,
Brighter than before.

It will celebrate
And kick and hit the piñata
And do a dance,
Climbing on to your body
And feeling you once again.

And if you don’t return?

It will smile upon you
In each cloud you notice while on your way to work.

It will breathe upon you
In each thing of beauty you admire.

It will grip you at your core
In every good taste and sensuous
Feel, and all pain you endure.

There she will be,
My unchangeable heart,
loving you.

You did that to me,
Opened me up
Lighting fire to the wick of my abilities
Till they swelled and the
Flame tripled in size
Blanketing the earth,
Then the universe.
And joining the sun
And the sun's sun.

No other had the power.

What I realized is this;
In my deepest pain I will always
Recognize the face of the unchangeable
And in my deepest joy I will always
know the source for this love:

My heart is unchanging — it has room for none other.

And I look at the track marks
Your boots left on the then soft ground,
Now hard as stone

And I can smile and
Remember it was all good. 

stephanie lorentzen-jordan

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