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Undress Your Heart

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Remove the bulletproof vest
that has been covering your heart.
Rather than protecting you, 
it is the cause of pain. 

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Undress your heart!
You have imprisoned Love.
No wonder it aches!
Its longing is a message. 

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Let Love's tiny stirrings
become an explosion
that shatters Separation.
Love needs no protector. 

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Its ocean is your body.
Its sun melts frozen sorrow.
It sword cuts through delusion.
Its tenderness heals wounds. 

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Undress your heart!
Let yourself fall open
in your longing
to What ends longing.

© Dorothy Hunt
Photo courtesy of Nina Cherington

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