It’s Your Heart

You do things

because it is your nature

to do them,

not the return,

not the good karma

that one day

you may hope

will find you…

but because

it’s your heart

that needs to give

in that way.

Jyoti Wind is an astrologer and writer. She has self-published six books: poetry, meditation and prayers; a childhood memoir; and several anthologies. Her new book, The Creative Arc: An Anthology on Writing, will be available this month, Nov. 2012. A mother, grandmother and great grandmother, she lives in Boulder, CO. You can reach her at [email protected].

 

 

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Assistant ed: Catherine Monkman