Pain In Your Heart

How Do You Meet Your Pain?

If you have a pain in your heart do you ignore it?

Or do you get angry, whipping yourself into a frenzy over the astronomical price of avocados?

Do you go on a mission to help your spouse, taking all your time and pouring it into the minutiae of their problems?

What do you do when you have a pain in your heart?

Do you sit and observe quietly?

To let the poisonous betrayal pour out in front of your crossed legs and all over the rug.

Or perhaps you take it in your cradled hands.

And softly pet and soothe the abandoned parts.

How do you respond to a pain in your heart?

Add another meeting or to do to your list?

Do you rev up your schedule like a bellowing metal hog, so you can drown out any whispers of the hurts and aches?

What do you do when you have a pain in your heart?

Why not listen, and soften and allow?

Can you welcome the expression with open arms?

Why not be with the pain as much as you dance with the anger or disgust?

The bodyguard is the anger.

The disgust is the distraction.

This is hiding the main event: the pain party!

In midlife the pain doesn’t seem so longlasting.

The pain doesn’t carry such a threat.

My pain is earned and all mine.

I honour the pain and release it with a joyful gratitude.

Hats off to you! Thank you for being in the trenches for me.

Until we meet again, pain in my heart, I applaud your courage.