Love's Letter

A New Poem

If you’ve been following my posts for a while, you know I’ve been supplanting my usual morning pages with the writing prompts from The Book of Alchemy. It’s been a nice change of pace. I’ve also been adding a poem every day at the end of the exercise. One prompt was to write a letter to love and then write the response. Here’s the resulting poem. I also have to send a thanks to Michael Meade for “the old saying.”

I just received 
a new mantra.
Here is how
it happened.
I am always in 
an inquiry about 
how to live with 
an open heart.
Who better to ask,
I thought, than
love itself?
So, I wrote a letter
to love, and
love responded!

"It is easy to have 
an open heart when
you conceal it behind 
barriers and shields.
But then, there is so much
that you cannot feel.
Better to let those walls
crumble and fall.
Allow everything to
flow in and out,
the pain and the joy.
Your heart is a good heart,
tender, but also strong. 
Your attempts to protect it 
only provide false security,
which (as the saying goes) 
is the only kind there is.
So, sit, and let your 
constant breath
guide you into 
repeating my name.
Breathe in, breath out.
Love in, Love out.
Love in, Love out."

I’ve been using the new mantra, too. You never know what will come out of your daily writings!

They’re so beautiful - and heart-shaped.