Finding Heart/A Letter to My Heart

Hello, my friend,

I’ve been thinking about life again,

How it was so much easier when I was a kid,

‘Cause I had that spark inside of me,

Driving me,

Telling me what I wanted from myself,

And now it’s gone,

Lost somewhere inside of me,

But I think that I’ve found it,

My purpose,

My reason to continue going,

What I’ve been put on this earth to do,

And life’s been so much better,

‘Cause now I’m doing something I forgot I ever wanted to,

My heart’s been so broken,

But now I can hold it again,

And it doesn’t have to cry anymore,

It doesn’t want to suffer,

But it did, because it thought that it failed me,

But it wasn’t it’s fault,

It was mine,

I let myself grow distant,

Lost the part of myself that was most important,

The part that made me happy,

The part that kept me going,

The part that could hold me,

That actually knew me…

The part that loved me,

Oh why did I let myself forget you?

You, the one who was put inside me by god to help me realize my legend,

To accomplish what he had intended for me to do,

Why did I forget you,

Why did we forget you,

Humanity has gotten so lost,

So so lost without you,

And now we cannot be content with ourselves,

And we don’t know who we are,

Cause you were who we are,

And without you?

We are nothing.

I wrote this poem after reading my favorite book, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, again after almost ten years. In the book the main character has a conversation with his heart, and that gave me the idea behind this poem.