To the Activist in Love (by Danielle Hilton)

What is a heart to do?

The kind of heart that pumps saltwater for the sea?

You didn't think you could carry much more. Did you?


You thought your chest would burst and your heart was already breaking or broken . .  .


While you were thinking with your head like a train tied to the tracks,
       your

                  Heart

                                   flew!


Defying reason and your best laid plans,
You are LEAPING IN LOVE.

Your poor mind-too used to fighting for liberation . . .
There's no comparing the mind to what was always free.

Of course your mind can stay busy with the struggle and
your heart still pumps water for the seas and,
though you feel it is broken or breaking,
dear warrior,
you are in love.