Phoenix-heart

By Genevieve Joy Breitbach

did you know

tears are made of d i ff'rent stuff

when sprung from love

or forged in hate

?

I love

the way a human leaves liquid stars

dangling on the rise of their cheekbone

a breath longer when they’re happy

melting the molecules

into their flesh

healing hearts

from the inside out

it’s the magic potion from our salted blood -

a relief, a joy or curtain of disappointment

emotion

grinds away the Past

& pushes the present into ...……

Focus.

I love

the fresh spice of old wounds

thought lost,

when healing words are spoken, that tickle

awake

then seal together into wholeness;

oysters enclosing a new pearl of wisdom

that can take a breath of

sea water,

sprouting a mermaid tail to

swim the endless sea

of human emotion

there are those who don’t believe

someone can ever heal

their past

d o n ’ t listen to

those fools

that would have you believe you are nothing but a

roughhewn clod of

fleshy earth.

You are fluctuating endlessly—

A swarm of

being, soul, and mind

that transforms your body, your heart--

that glove your soul wears to brush

the earth...

for what terrifies them

is that you

A R E

C

H

A

N

G

E

Pure energy molecules bouncing

off chandelier

diamonds;

teardrops of the world

around you.

Each breath of forgiveness

Makes you whole.