The heart department

The heart department                                                                                       
 
Let us forgive each other, though you should know
there’s nothing to forgive, or more accurately
 
no one to forgive, neither of us very good
in the heart department with our peculiar
 
phobias and mistrust; shame and insularity.
Brought together by fate (torn apart by the same),
 
we learned then and in retrospect, more about karma,
each other and particularly our frightened selves;
 
prompted us each in our own painful ways
to begin unraveling some of the coarser bindings;
 
to make way for fresh ones, places we were reluctant to go;
moving incrementally toward the truth of Meher
 
Who has always stated that we (though not in the way
we once envisioned) are indeed not we but One.
 
O child of God, get wise to yourself, in part
by the kindly study of the others in your life.