COMPASSIONATE HEART
This compassionate heart That grew inside me Was born from pain And desperate attempts To keep away from old wounds Lost in addictions and avoidance Strategies that failed And only brought me greater suffering And suffering to those around me When I gave up fighting My world caved in And the resistor was destroyed, Broken up and dissolved What remained, and it took many years And many tears Was this compassionate heart I saw myself in everyone I saw everyone’s pain and sorrow I saw the patterns we weave And the strategies we employ I realized that only kindness really works And only a compassionate embrace Of all human troubles Releases us to be who we are.