The creation of heart

One morning,
God asked His angels to make a heart.
They did not know what a heart was.
They asked:
What does it hold?
What does it do?
God said,
“Take a symphony.
Look at the leaves—
how the air touches them,
how they move without being told.”
The angels wondered.
God spoke again,
“Look at the sun and the night,
how they take turns .
Put the goodbye of the sun
into the greeting of the moon.”
“Put how the waves touch the sand
and vanish,
only to be reborn
and reach for it again.
Put the clouds
brushing the tops of mountains.
Put the promise of love.”
The angels asked once more,
“What is love, God?”
God answered,
“The urge to feel death
without the heart stopping,
the urge to feel life
without having to die,
It is the touch of the unknown
the unseen,
the unspeakable.”

Faria Motin is an artist and cultural activist who expresses her thoughts through writing poems and songs, and adding tune to them.