Heart Expressions (Poem)

Through the gateways of our natural ears and eyes,

There seeks to transit, palpable truths and lies.

Some we’ll adore, others abhor,

And most we will simply ignore.

Just like magnets of opposite poles,

Some will attach to parts of our soul. ¹

Those that attach tightly to our imagination,

Will in our heart find abundant fertilization.

Truths and lies that are palpable,

Act like seeds agricultural.

Once lodged in our imagination, fruitful,

They’ll germinate, and send downward roots, needful.

These roots seek nourishment that is only found,

In the human heart where life’s essence abounds.

Once in the heart, these roots slowly spread out.

Since roots are smart, for nourishment they will scout.

Hidden in the heart’s quiet recesses,

These roots feed and spread their influences.

In time, the heart, in ways that are subtle and refined,

Will have quietly and substantially been redesigned.

The way our heart’s redesign folks will attest,

Will be by things from our heart that we express,

Those things that we tolerate, support or protest,

All based on palpable truths and lies we ingest.

Our heart, seat of motivating beliefs,

That form and shape our life’s changing motifs.

From our beliefs, motives will spring forth,

Which in our words and actions are stored.

Because He knows beliefs shape the quality of our lives,

God warns us: Be careful what comes into your ears and eyes! ²

Yet many choose to believe lies and disparage truths,

And as they do, societal life quality dilutes.

The steady drip of lies we choose to believe,

Blinds our mind’s ability the truth to perceive.

With less truths perceived, and then imagined,

With more deceptions we are …impassioned.

With deceptions, lives inflamed,

Lies as truths are then renamed!

Since with every truth The Spirit of Truth is allied,

It stands to reason there must be a spirit of lies. 

Through the gateways of our natural ears and eyes,

There seeks to transit, palpable truths and lies.

Some we will adore, and others we will ignore.

Can you recognize each that comes through your mind’s doors?

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¹ Mind, will, emotions, intellect and imagination

² Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:23)