The Heart That Beats for Many

The Heart That Beats for Many

You may not see it now,
but you are such
a beautiful person.
You hold your head high
when every passing person
seems to want to pull you down.
You see a world
filled with hypocrites and liars,
yet you still seem
to manage to smile
here and there.
You carry the voices
of many,
those lost along the road;
you speak for those
who can't help it anymore.

And yes,
I can see that
your heart is heavy,
that it drags
with the weight
of so much.
I can feel its beat
from miles away,
such a powerful rumble,
such a magnificent sound.
It thumps at the tempo
of a hummingbird's wings,
swaying this way and that
out of the sheer effort.

But that doesn't mean
you have to set down somewhere,
some dank out-of-the-way place,
and be alone.
That doesn't mean
that the world is worth
giving up on just yet.

You never need to face this world alone.
Not while I'm here for you.

It may seem silly now,
may seem absurd and unreal.
And I get that;
most people think that too
the first time I say it.
But those who have stuck around
know better.

Let me carry
some of that burden with you.
It may not be much help,
but I hope it's enough.



I leave you with this quote from Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers:

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. 

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. 

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam? 

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.