Are You Leading With Your Heart?

 

Fear knocked on the door and Love answered...No one was there*

When they are not allowed to ask

And threatened to “obey”

A child can lose the will to think

Explore and laugh and play

 

A child can lose the sense of trust

That comes from deep within

When told that they are not enough

And full of shame and sin

 

The child then leans on anything

To feel good and belong

And never questions leadership

They will just tag along

 

Learning how to walk behind

Is all they ever knew

And follow into lockstep ways

While  grief and anger grew

 

Now God and priest and government

Now doctors, teachers too

Behold the mind that never asked

And now believes in you

 

Were you the child that dared to stand

And build the world with heart?

Did you step out and feel the sun

While others stood apart?

 

Did you exhaust the endless ways

To understand new things

Or did you just accept what was

To avoid the stress this brings?

 

Now all of those who make the rules

Discern and look again:

Are you leading with your heart

Or just avoiding pain?

 

GF Aug24/2021

 

 If you haven't been absolutely mind-boggled by many choices and policies coming into place in most areas of life and been bamboozled by the flip-flopping of rule makers regarding education, health, government,and social policy, then perhaps this reflective poem may not penetrate your understanding as deeply as those of us who have been forced to look more closely at what is motivating many of these decisions being made.  Is it fear, greed, confusion, compliance or something else?  We must look beyond what the mainstream is willing to reveal and observe more closely...starting with ourselves and what we are willing to accept and embody.  It starts wth how well we know ourselves... understanding what freedom means and knowing how fear can be a major driving force for influencing  our behaviour.

Stay strong fellow peace- makers and lovers of freedom and beauty.  Remember to hold a clear and powerful vision of the life you idealize and keep creating ways to activate this.  

May you be guided by the Truth of your Hearts,

Ganga

 

* Ancient Saying