Heartstrings

Heartstrings                                                                                                     
 
Love.  Look it up in the dictionary
if you care to read a human handful
 
of pallid descriptions – fondness;
deep affection; enjoyment. 
 
Love – the antonym of hate;
the opposite of fear. 
 
Will that do for an answer? 
Or, maybe, love –
 
the mystery beyond description.
There’s no definition in that crowded book
 
for that which we are most desperately yearning –
a Word to break our chains;
 
to pull us up from the muck
by our heartstrings. 
 
O child of God, keep your ear cocked
toward the otherworld silence of Meher.