What’s in your heart?
Are you afraid to see?
Will it be what they’ve told you?
What you think it will be?
What is more frightening,
The truth or the lies?
In truth, is there freedom?
In falsehood, bondage and ties?
Around your heart’s surface,
Have you set up a shield?
Detachment, a pretence
For what your inner-heart feels?
Your outer-wall surface,
Your shield around self,
Is not intrinsically you,
But sheathing observed on a shelf
The inner-most substance
Of your design before time
By internalized truth and love
Is being strengthened, refined
21/10/2016