Past experiences lay the path and lead the way for my wonder
Painting pictures from memory
Reminders, full of moving color
Trigger
Pain resurrected
Re-lived warnings of danger
By my bloodstream, the drum of hurrying soldiers racing to the frontlines of my heart
They set their walls of defense
Their mission--to seek out enemy threats by familiar signs of dangerÂ
To act before possible attack
Even when the threat lies at the throne of the heart
For this brings danger to all the land
My mind, the military leader
Shouting orders
Bearing the burden of knowing
What lies beyond the commands
The heart may have to go
Thousands of troops responding to the call of their leader
The clangs of swords upon shields
Boots thundering
Vibrating the heart’s walls
Hands surrendered up
Knowing the good of what's to follow
It's only source of strength
The heart must die to thine own desires
Die to thine own self
For this is where freedom of the land lies in wait
At the death of the heart’s heavy throne
-Stephanie Tuck