Our Wild Hearts

Our Wild Hearts
mixed media & poem by Melanie Lee

Our Wild Hearts

We set out searching into the  wild
 in the Year of Unknowing.

 Dark nights, weird noises, frightful wonders, 
We fell in deep,
over our heads, heads over heels. 

Someone  wonderful was watching.

Quite a job it was, blithe spirits we were.
Could we bring it safely home?
"Not to be known!" thundered Someone,
this author of our souls, delivering

 smart raps on the knuckles.
Bruised and broken we strode on.

 Peering deeper into the jungle
a clearing came to view
Cloud up there? Like a heart, we said.
Someone smiled at that
and clapped 
the sound of one hand.

Emergence came on winter's heels
springtime rolled round again.

The road ahead said follow me,
 air sweet, birds a'winging 
Someone laughing
Someone singing...

"You're out of the woods
You're out of the dark
You're out of the night
Step into the sun
Step into the light."

("OptimisticVoices" song
 lyrics by E.Y. Harburg)