"Knock knock" mistress heart
It's about time you and I had a heart-to heart
I certainly do not understand your emotional arts
And I know I do speak for all the other parts
"Knock knock mistress heart
Why are you so sudden, quicker than the hart?
Your paths so unpredictable, smart I cannot chart
And your moods so unstable, each one a rare delicacy in an exotic mart
"Knock knock" mistress heart
I can't ever keep up with your detailed stats
One fall in the pit of love can make you as blind as ten bats
It's hopeless trying to make you see the glaring facts
"Knock knock" mistress heart
Obviously there isn't a battle against you I can win
Even my best, most calculated reason seems to you another tale spin
And I just hate it that you could be right but what's to lose? I'll still hold up my chin
And so before I leave having laid out my charge now bare and thin
"Knock knock" mistress heart answer me quick, make haste to your kin!
E.B Opoku
Copyright(c) 13th June 2011. 00:26 (Atlantic time)
If you're giggling from this read, I'll take one straight guess and like a purposed arrow, I know it will hit the bull's eye. You're at least a one time victim of this mind to heart monologue no? Yes it is a monologue for almost most. lol!(I'm totally aware of the exception to every rule, rule.) Good for you if mistress heart could give you clear reasoned responses about her actions, although I doubt she did. And this is the age-old fight between heart and mind summed rather aptly in the words "the heart does things for reason that reason cannot understand" and mind you these are the sayings of a French Mathematician and Philosopher (I'll let you figure out who). Rare combination I think, a pragmatist and a dreamer! You usually don't find a combination of these two talents in one. Anyway If I'm emphasizing this Mathematician-Philosopher's resume, it's for the added effect of validating that the statement didn't just originate with some common, ordinary love struck guy who just randomly and by accident came by the statement in a 'one-off' stroke of genius.
I speak for me and I reflect the many times my clever mind still manages to lose out to my heart in the battle for the most sensitive and important decisions. Not all the time though. I mean that would question the cleverness of my mind or enforce the dictatorship of my heart. I'm definitely not dumb and I certainly am no dictator! So where is the balance you ask? He's called the Holy Spirit. And thanks to Him, I've been making the best decisions for quite some time now. The times when I haven't, I probably have been relying on either one of my faculties. Many people approach life with a question: to follow their hearts or to use their heads? Well I learned that life is way beyond the head and the heart. And even a combination of both will still likely not get you very far. The Bible talks about acknowledging God in all your ways and He will direct your path. Wise old proverbs and its true. Solomon surely was wise enough to know that the heart was tricky and evasive and thus, the secret to taming it would be to put it to the unending task of trusting in God. He also did know that the mind can be a smarty pants, thinking it does know better when it is totally flawed and so he admonished to lean not on its understanding which appeals to most considering its coherent logic unlike the heart which has missing equations in its math! Though I have given up trying with my mind to understand my heart, I still haven't stopped observing their differences and learning why those two are mostly irreconcilable. This poem was thus birthed out of this observation considering that again my heart which loves poetry is all out at work to make something beautiful with words, while my mind is telling me that I should be sleeping. You know what they say "early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, happy and wise." I frankly don't care who's winning. I just have a simple message to give. That people will find life much easier If they decide to trust in God and His Holy Spirit to show and lead in the right way rather than play tug of war deciding whether to listen to the mind or the heart. Cheers!!!
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