Filling

When your heart gets broken,

and it will – at least if you manage

not to avoid all of life –

try not to obsess on seamlessly

super-gluing it all back together

in just the same shape, form,

and size that it was before.

Instead, try to let it be

held loosely by God,

with all fissures not only visible,

but some of them quite wide.

Why would you dare

to risk something like that?

So that God and others

can fill both the cracks

and your heart with all the love

that it couldn’t hold while

it was small and intact.

Photo by Terri Taylor

© 2014 Todd Jenkins