The heart aches
for what the mind wants
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The heart aches
- The heart aches
- for what the mind wants.
- Not smart enough, nowhere close
- to enlightened, a hungry snail who thinks
- himself a cat, always searching,
- always on the verge of something,
- unable to anticipate every variable
- unknown. In the end
- the heart takes him in,
- wraps him up in her
- boundless forgiveness
- knowing that puzzles
- are the opiate of the restless.
- She’s had the answers
- all along and reminds him
- as he twists and agonizes
- in his sleep until sunrise, when again
- he rides off toward the light,
- coat fully unbuttoned, searching
- for shadows on roads
- that lead him
- back to the beginning.