Journey With Heart

What journey? 

What mode of conveyance,

Have you booked 

passage on?

There most certainly

Are many 

Beautiful and amusing

Attractions on most routes

Be wary

Many the traveller

As become infatuated

And lost sight of their destination

You believe your choice

To be the finest?

And well it is

That you be pleased  

Temper your enthusiasm

And respect 

The choices of others

The love of their choice equals yours

You have disembarked

Prematurely

If yours disallows 

Those on parallel, but unique paths

If your choice is defined 

As exclusion or disdain

Of others - rest awhile there

But this is not the end

At the hub

Where all roads converge

Lies 

The collective heart

Once there 

You will have 

No capacity 

For judgement 

The heart 

Of your fellow travellers

Will be revealed 

To be one with your own

If you've a continued need 

To condemn and persecute

You are at the side show

Not the grande finale

When you've found

The centre of your heart

The need to announce your arrival

Will be overcome by your heart

No further need to journey

Your heart will be known

By your 

Living of it.

R. O'Neill (August 01, 2017)