‘Listen to your Heart’: ‘My Heart & I’

‘Listen to your Heart’

Love, the simple and true one -
finds you when you least expect it
and then you have to listen
carefully to the strums of your heart
and follow it blindfolded,
for your heart to truly feel alive
and go on forever and more.

Sometimes, life and love
pass you by as scenes running
in the opposite direction,
outside of a moving express train -
such that only when you are way gone
in your journey and reached home,
do you recognise it was real love
waving at you - to grab your attention
at a forlorn remote station, midway.

But you had not recognised love then,
so you could not savor love’s sojourn.
Then you relegate your heart
to rewinding slide shows in your mind
and watching the film - to ensure
it was love and not your imagination -
dreaming, waiting for it to be reality.

Would you go back to that station
as in films - to look for that love
you just had not recognised
when it was staring you in the face:
Or would you simply move on
thinking you will find love again
at another convenient station of life?

To allow your heart to go on and on
you have to listen to it -
pull the emergency chord
to bring the train of life to a halt,
allow Love to come and take you along!

— Shuvashree


‘My Heart & I’

I listen to my heart -
to follow it as it chases the wind,
it throws me off balance -
from its saddle I slip,
trampled by youthful hoofs
as the horseshoe slips downhill -
my wise soul still pats its shin,
sends it galloping into the sunshine -
it has a long life to still live,
to give birth and raise colts
who it’s long life will enrich,
to bring me back a contentment -
as letting go in love will be my win.

—- Shuvashree

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The three poems I’m reading, are from my 1st book of poetry, Fragments – available globally, in any country and in a variety of online formats as well as in print – in the links in the post.