Nerves of Steel Are Not What They Seem

 

Linking with Shay's Word Garden Word List ~ Absent in the Spring

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"A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

 Who understands?"

 ~Antonio Porchia

 

Feeling no pain is not a strength darling!

True guts and nerve require a certain suffered calling.

We must be willing to sit within the bitter ache of it all, like we would a chair in the surgery waiting room.

Then hold the hand of grief and cry the tears of another’s greatest loss.

For we get nowhere if we recite words we do not know

to souls we understand even less.

Some things must be felt to be truly understood.

The years never pass quietly with nothing to struggle through;

we will be awakened by more than alarm clocks and baby’s crying.

There are phone calls at 2 am, the crash of thunder, and emergency sirens.

And where there is something to hold, there is also something to let go.

If you are grieving then you hold the greatest treasure of mankind;

a loving heart!

For empty hearts are too lazy to move what matters.

They only leave a soul roving far from where they should be.

You see weakness lingers in the comfort of the sidelines,

but strength runs into burning buildings

to save someone it doesn’t even know!

So, don’t be discouraged beautiful soul,

it is far grimmer to feel nothing in the midst of a hurting world.