Poem Therapy 6 December 2012 8:04 P.M.: Footprint on Your Heart - Gary Lenhart

Footprint on Your Heart
Gary Lenhart


Someone will walk into your life,
Leave a footprint on your heart,
Turn it into a mudroom cluttered
With encrusted boots, children's mittens,
Scratchy scarves—
Where you linger to unwrap 
Or ready yourself for rough exits 
Into howling gales or onto 
Frozen car seats, expulsions
Into the great outdoors where touch
Is muffled, noses glisten,
And breaths stab,
So that when you meet someone
Who is leaving your life
You will be able to wave stiff
Icy mitts and look forward
To an evening in spring
When you can fold winter away
Until your next encounter with
A chill so numbing you strew
The heart's antechamber
With layers of rural garble.

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If you are very lucky, you will have many footprints imprinted on your heart, even if they shred you or strew your antechamber with rural garble.
 

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