"Your heart is like an ocean.
A depth of place.
Waves of emotion roll from you.
Vast reach to the shoreline
of those who need your caring heart.
Or, often, those you dare share
all you know of feeling.
You risk all and then take back too.
Tide comes in and out of your feelings.
But it breaks in time,
as the waves are of strength - or sublime,
gently resting as your mind
finds a place of healing grace.
Or, then again, when great emotion enters in
and calm waters find you there,
sinking into the depth of despair.
And then comes in time
a new current that will flow -and once again -
you ride, feeling joyousness and strength.
This in your heart, again, you find."
The LightKeepers/Carolyn Hass Zaiser