“Clear!”

I want my heart to move
to stir–

to be touched
into excitement,
to pangs of poignancy…

I want the world
to thrill me,
make me laugh,
delight me,
inspire me to dance,

to sing aloud,
to share,
to give
from my own open heart…

to reach out,
touching other hearts
grown stiff and cold
to bring them back

to life,
to light–

where all our hearts began.

_{~2000 CL Redding}