One Heart

I am only one person.

If this is not a tangible concept for you, gently put your hand over my heart;
Feel that it is life, admire it's rhythm.

Appreciate the brilliant design in human architecture that brings my physical form to existence;
To grow and to be in this life time.

A blessed opportunity in which I encounter many experiences, unusual, exceptional and true;
One of which is to love and give to you.

As it may be, it is only one heart that pumps blood through only one set of lungs and limbs;
Big big spirit, big big love, one semi-gelatinous body.

Open as it may be, it is only one heart of tens of billions of pulsing others;
It only has so many resources, so many beats available at any one time.

It is pulled in the direction of all things and ever carries the weight of worry;
Tears flow for me easily, I ache with the pain of others.

Full and engorged, pushing substances through the seat of my emotion;
It is the safest place within me, I trust it to guide and direct the motion.

Elegant and unmatched, filled with unquestionable veracity and the occasional hint of blue;
Complicated and maybe a little crazy, it is what I have to offer to you.

Mine is yours and you know this, but carefully consider that I am only one person and that is all that I can be;
I now turn to you first, when my strength falters and am facing fears, I need you to be the one to go to bat for me.