wake up, heart!

wake up, heart!

wake up, heart!

wake up and love everyone and every thing

love the unlovable

the unhappy old men who start the wars

the geniuses who collapse the economy

the heads of the big corporations who ruin the earth

they need love, too

why else would they do stuff like that?

we all want to love and be loved

we all need to love and be loved

love everything that moves

and everything that won’t budge

love the person who is reading or listening to this poem

you might start with the easy ones

passing dogs

laughing children

fluffy white clouds

all the spring flowers shouting “love me!”

practice on the easy ones

until you get so good at it that you accidentally love the weird and scary homeless people, 

the criminals, 

the people whose views differ from yours

—before you have time to think about it

heart, you were born for love

mr. brain sometimes tells you not to

“don’t love that one,” he says, “that one doesn’t deserve it”

“don’t be a fool”

forgive mr. brain

he can’t help it

he’s always making distinctions between this and that

he needs a hug

you know better

you know that the thing to do is just to love

to wake up and love without limit