Questions of a heart just opening

Are you ready
To touch your vulnerable heart?
To listen to its hoping beat?
To let it stay alive
In a time showing hopelessness?
Do you caress its feelings
Even when you can't allow
YourSelf to express them?
Are you strong enough
Not again to reject
Its pounding desire?
Are you courageous enough
To keep its precious door open
In spite of the hurt
That once extinguished
All light in your eyes?
Are you grown up now
To allow it to stay open?
Because once it has been touched
It wants to look
At all delicate surrounding beauty
With its tender eyes.
Do you believe in your own truth
Not condemning the ones
Who have to protect themSelves
For survival?
Can you stay the loneliness
That sometimes follows honesty?
Can you be with the Joy
Your body remembers
Once having been
In desiring, radiant, explosive
Connection?
Do you trust life
That it will happen again?
Can you take your heart
Into your own tender hands
Comforting it
For not feeling fulfilled
Its longing loving?
Are you ready
To embrace the world
Without having human hands
To hold you?
Are you trustful
To share your thoughts and feelings
By just offering them?
Can you enjoy all the moments
Being with yourSelf and themSelves?
Can you offer your presents
Being content
That they are taken
Just with thankfulness?
Can you bear that
Your heart's endless tender universe
IS TOUCHED BY EVERYONETHING?

You have arrived
YOU ARE READY FOR (LOVE) TANGO

. . . Maria Stoecker, May 2007