Full And Broken

What does it mean?
To have an Open Heart

To me it means
To be Full and Broken

For the heart that is truly open
Is vast enough to be filled
Is strong enough to be broken

A dozen times a day

Broken

By the hungry Chinese woman
Who begs for food by pointing to her mouth
Because she knows no english

By the story of a whale
Who, like so many people
Constantly moans
And feels completely alone
Because
She is not heard
By a single soul
On this gigantic planet

By the tears of a mother
Who wants nothing more
Than to hear
What a wonderful mother she is
From one who will not give her such praise

Filled

By the stranger who feeds the Chinese woman
By the souls who hear the whale
By the someone who acknowledges the mother

Filled
By the smile from a child
The colors of the trees
My own laughter

My heart gets broken
Every day
My Heart gets filled
Every day

The label is irrelevant

What matters

Is that I feel it all
Because only then do I know
That My Heart
Is Truly Open


               - Clint Piatelli

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