A Brighter Path

A compassionate heart

Does not curse the sky

For the falling rain

It sees the greater purpose

Like helping the flowers 

To bloom again

A compassionate heart

Does not cry out in pain

Screaming why and how

Over and over again

It aches to make things right

And does not seek to blame

A compassionate heart

Will always cultivate love

Without thought of personal gain

Without expectation of return

Without conditions or stipulations

A compassionate heart

Beats inside my chest

It is my brain

I need to quiet

It is my thinking

I need to change

When I listen to my heart

All that remains

Is love

And understanding

For everyone

And everything

When everyone is quiet

I hear my heart

So loud and strong

I know my path

I hear my soul's song

When everything is quiet

And I turn off my brain

I hear the most beautiful refrain

As my compassionate heart

Dances to its own beat

And I am bathed in a love

Which can suffer no defeat

I love to dance

This beat

I love to sing

This song

I love this peace of mind

Which allows me to hear it

And relish in it all

I remember when I close my mind

And fancy myself standing tall

It is merely my defensive armor

Which will hurt me when I fall

And I know I will fall

Because that inevitably happens

When I cannot see

And one can never truly see

With their mind closed

I thank the universe

For this beautiful gift

This seed of truth

I allowed to grow

And in doing so

I came to know

So many things

I never would have seen

Any other way

Like my own light shining

Through this darkest time

Like my own heart surrendering

All that was never mine

Like my own reality shattering

And breaking for all time

I will never again close my eyes to truth

I will never again stray from honor

I will never again follow a path

Which leads me through the kind of darkness

Which threatens to extinguish my light