The Truth Prevails Poem by Daniel Brick

The Truth Prevails

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To run in the heartland of dreams...
Nosheen Irfan

I read your spring poem with delight
and anticipated the wisdom following after.
But it was foolishness that clouded my mind
despite your sweet rhymes and luscious images.
I was about to blurt out the offending question -
Where is this heartland of dreams? - as if
I were inquiring about a vacation site.
I saw you lower your head in silence, and
when you raised it a moment later your eyes
held the tenderness of deer eyes and
their dark pools were shining with tears.
Oh, how could I have been so obtuse?
Your poem was one of resignation, not
of possibilities. It was meant to calm
our desires for impossible dreams.
And yet I blundered with those very dreams
into the luminous space of your poem,
almost spoiling the quiet truth you
conveyed. I was not ready for your
poem. I blindly read it, saw only
what I wanted to see, unaware of
your gift of clear thinking.
But you trusted your poem and
had faith in me, and today
I re-read your words, and their
wisdom bloomed inside of me.
It is light and airy, carrying it
is no burden, because it has dispelled
yesterday's mistakes which made things
misunderstood so heavy. And now I know
the heartland is not a place: it is
Interior Self ever in need of refining
to be true to itself, and the running is
your metaphor for achieving understanding
of the heart before the false dreams
smother its quiet wisdom.

Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: truth
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nosheen Irfan 25 May 2017

Daniel i really like it. You have lent substance and meaning to my poem that i just wrote on an impulse, not giving any thought to what it might convey. lol. But readers like you glean meanings out of frivolous words. I'm so grateful and flattered. And i'm also greatly pleased that my poem inspired you to write a gem for us. Thank you Daniel. And rest assured the truth of your words prevails. A huge 10.

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Edward Kofi Louis 24 May 2017

With delight! ! The truth prevails! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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