Friday, November 27, 2015

Our Pocket Opens

My 'Friday Poem' selection for the week -- "Our Pocket Opens":

Our burdens are our rocks, 
and rocks come in different sizes 
just as our burdens do. 

When we  carry a rock 
around all day, we try 
to put it in our pocket. 

Our hearts have pockets 
for our rocks, our burdens. 
The bigger the burden 
the bigger the pocket
in our heart. 

Every time we tell someone 
our burden, our pocket opens.

-- Gynnae Hochstetler