Go Easy

Go easy.
Go easy on yourself.

Take care with your bleeding heart.
Offer comfort as you would
to a crying child; use the
calm, soothing voice,
strong and reassuring.
Have compassion for
the parts that burn to ash,
they are equal to the parts that soar.

Take care with your wild mind.
If your thoughts tend to stray
toward the things you don't want,
to the place where fear resides,
coax them with a gentle hand -
even for the thousandth time -
back to love's side of the road
where things turn out right.

You are learning.
Be patient.

This is hard.
Go easy.