“ONLY LOVE CAN OPEN AND HEAL OUR HURTING HEARTS” a poem about how to open your heart to get sweet love flowing again
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SPIRITUAL SOUL By Chinmayan
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This is THE DAWNING LIGHT # 1011 Daily Journal of Uplifting Writing
JOURNEY OF THE HEART Section # 600 Poetry and Love Songs by Chinmayan to inspire you to open your heart and spirit to LOVE
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ONLY LOVE CAN OPEN AND HEAL OUR HURTING HEARTS
“There is nothing more painful
Than living our lives with our hearts closed—
Because we have been hurt when we were
Reaching out for Love and were
Rejected or betrayed or scorned or ignored
And the pain was so great beyond bearing
That we shut down our heart to protect ourselves
From being hurt again, but even then our spirits
Long to be sharing love, giving love, receiving love…
Which cannot happen until we realize that living
With our hearts open, while consciously learning to
Love ourselves first, is actually the only solution
And safety that we can ever have in this world.”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
Most of us are living our lives
With our hearts tightly closed by all the
Painful things that been done to us by those
We believed would always be loving and caring…
Or by the taunts of bullies and the cruel and nasty things
Done by those we believed to be our friends…
And the thing is, we have been living
This way for so long that we are no longer
Aware of what it feels like to open our
Hearts in love or even remember how to do it,
Because with great pain comes lasting fear,
Which is meant to protect us from being hurt again,
But actually is a prison that only we have the keys to,
Is a poison that kills all the joy and goodness of life.
I have lived in that prison and drank that poison
For many years in a place of darkness so deep that
All my hopes and dreams slowly withered and died,
Until I realized that though its true I had been
Grievously hurt in ways I never deserved,
That it did not have to be a life sentence living in
Those dark dungeons and that only I held the power
To defeat the demons of despair and darkness,
That only I could release myself from this
Terrible prison of my own devise…
In that moment, I stood up and shook off
Seeing myself as a victim and tossed away my
Painful past like old and rotting clothes…
In that moment, I realized that I could step
Into the sanctuary and freedom of this shining present
And I understood that to live I had to learn to
Love and care for myself, to make myself my
Own best friend who I can trust absolutely—
In that moment, I woke up from the nightmare and
Began the long journey out for hell and into the light
For I know beyond any doubt that only when
My heart is open and kept open can I say
I am fully alive, for we were all born to love,
For only Love can heal, only Love is true and
Only an open and loving heart can know God
And bring us the fulfillment we long for and deserve.
December 3, 2022
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“Only Love can open and heal our hearts so that can can give, share and receive all of the Love that is here for us…”
—Yeshe Gyamtso