This Is My Heart on Fire
This is my heart,

stubbornly beating away

with all its might

This is the voice of my soul,

a howl that proclaims,

“I am here, I am here,

I am still here”

This is my spirit,

bursting through the fog,

the misty confusion

that threatened to hide the truth

These are my fears,

my chains, the burdens I carried

and learned to leave behind

These are my hopes,

the ones that helped me survive;

I don’t know if they’ll come true,

I know I have no choice but to try

This is my life,

the only one I’ll ever have,

mine to enjoy and waste,

to love and hate,

to fall and rise

This is me, wondering if I’ll get it right,

knowing there are no assurances,

that this is not a drill and

there are no do-overs, and yet,

no matter where this journey takes me,

no matter how it ends,

no one will be able to say

my heart was not on fire.
['Gb Rogut']
['Hope', 'Life Lessons', 'Poetry Sunday', 'Life', 'Poetry']