Follow Your Heart
by Nahshon Cook
art by Antonio Guerrero
http://www.guerreroart.com
“If I am not my true self:
until I am angel for another,
since life is a circular thing
that ends where it begins,
like the golden-white halos
that crown the heads
of spiritually high, fine-minded, holy ones,
whose eyelids move up and down
with the grace of a gazelle
every time they blink;
due to their vast savannas of fellow feelings,”
I said to God,
“then I need to know what love truly is,
because I don’t want to be afraid
of the dark riddle of death, anymore.”
And God said,
“Then be wise to your soul,
puzzle out your mind,
and follow your heart,
because she knows
how to string herself along
with my way of thinking.”