“Life is here to break your heart” by Jeff Foster
Bandaged Heart by dreamur-gurl
Life is here to break your heart
over and over again -
until you realize
that heartbreak is life too.
Then your heart can no longer be broken,
or fixed, for that matter.
So you learn to live
with an exquisitely fragile heart
permanently broken, permanently aflame,
vulnerable and indestructible too,
and you stand naked in front of life,
moment by moment, breath by breath,
knowing that whatever happens
is totally okay somehow -
even in the midst of this perfect devastation,
which is now a kind of
‘devastating perfection’.
(Even when you forget all this,
which you often do.)
This is freedom
beyond the speaking of it.
~ Jeff Foster
