Keep a soft heart
Keep a soft heart
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Do not berate yourself for being soft.
For caring too much. Loving. Giving.
Softness touches lives
Changes prisons into oysters
Compassion is a gift.
These people who “Toughen up”
Are they happier?
Not any I’ve ever met.
On the contrary, they make themselves more bitter, spike themselves.
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I aspire to not only keep a soft heart,
But to mellow it even more.
Have my smile become refuge
For lost wanderers in the rain
I will coax it gently as obstinate butter
With sweet old films, romantic songs
The beams of kind elderly ladies at bus stops
Swirl the mass throughout me
Spread it on the bread of human fear
Have my rose fuel feed crowds
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There is too much hard.
To be disappointed in others is to be unaccepting of your own nature as mistake maker.
This doesn’t mean have no boundaries.
Of course have boundaries.
But don’t electrify the fence.
Your heart is pink.
Your heart is red.
Let it swell and glow like ET’s did
Or wear it on your sleeve, tender as sweetcorn
Softness is a strength
And an ability to radiate love
Can never be mocked
That’s lovely Julie. Good advice. It’s quite astonishing sometimes how others expect people close to them to ‘toughen up’. I think perhaps because it means they won’t be required to do anything to help if that person appears to be veneered with self sufficiency.
How is your educational quest going for the boy?
Yes. What she said. This was something that my man Wilhelm Reich talked of a lot, keeping a soft heart (he is the “Daddy” referred to in the Kate Bush song, Cloudbusting). Ironically, Reich often came across as quite bitter and angry when he said it - but then he led a very persecuted life. He was angry at the way society forces us to develop emotional armour to have to deal with its tyrannical bullshit and sexual repression. Sometimes you do need a tough exterior, but never harden your heart.