Poem: 'My Beating Heart'

My Beating Heart

Sweet eternity

Came and sat by my side;

Her hand softly stroked

My heart, the unchained dancer.

Inflamed and overcome,

My thoughts turned into a blur.

Intoxicated

By a secret source, my mind

Had long been dreaming.

Then, daylight arose in the skies;

I opened my eyes.

Eternity soothingly

Lay her sweet hand on

My shoulder, numbed by cold winds.

Suddenly, I felt

The sublime take hold of me.

My tenderness, still

Dulled by silence and absence,

Appeared to demand

More ease and more strength from me.

Sweet eternity

Kindly held me in her arms

And whispered some pure,

Refined, and unforgettable

Tunes and sentences

Worthy of grand prophecies.

“When Heart beats, Spirit dances.

When Spirit dances, Universe comes to life.

When Universe comes to life, God creates.

Let your heart follow Time’s rhythm.

Let it love or you may kill your soul.

Be like the autumnal fog;

Weave your forms through shivery mornings.

Be like the wintery snow, whose first flakes

Are so pure as to attract man’s steps.

Be immortal like the horizon –

Always ahead of the eyes but forever shifting.

Let your heart follow God’s rhythm.

Because when Heart beats, God creates.”

© 2008 Cendrine Marrouat

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Cendrine Marrouat is a writer, photographer, podcaster, blogger, anthology editor, and the co-founder of Auroras & Blossoms and A Warm Cup of Cozy. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 books, including The Train: A Short Story (2023), In Her Own Words: A Collection of Short Stories & Flashku (2022), After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine (2021), Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku (2020), Walks: A Collection of Haiku (2019-2020), and In the Silence of Words: A Three-Act Play (2018).

Cendrine's work has appeared in many publications. She is the creator of the Sixku, Flashku, Sepigram, and Reminigram; as well as the co-creator of the Kindku, Pareiku, Vardhaku, and Hemingku.