Dust and Colour

My heart is a cavern

Empty space filled with the thick darkness

Where earth smells make the blackness

Warm and deep

My heart is a vast openness, enclosed

By walls of curving stone and earth

That hold me still, that

Keep me safe here

And it's only when I shove the

Vibrant coloured dust and smoke

Of my emotions out of the cave that

They use as a stage, as a gallery

It's only when I push them to the

Edges of the frames

That they build and burst

And break and hurt

So I'm learning to slip into my

Cave of a heart and watch

The plays of colour and light

Swirling in the darkness

And now, sometimes, I can join their dance

And feel empty

And full