Describe Your Heart

Writing a description of your heart’s feelings.

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Explore and describe the current condition of your heart as a physical landscape detailing the atmosphere, terrain, structures, and other characteristics that give it definition.

This was the latest writing prompt that was distributed to the participants of the Sunrise Scribe weekly writing group hosted by my soul sister Fisiwe Zwana held every Tuesday and Friday at 7:15 am.

For this prompt, my mind drew a blank trying to think about a surface or environment that would best describe my heart’s current condition. Instead, I came up with the following response:

My heart is an ocean that’s blue, crystal clear like the Caribbean Sea with the sun’s golden rays shimmering on its waves. It is an amalgamation of love, happiness, and tranquility. Sometimes negative debris floats within these waters like anger, guilt, or shame but the positive always overwhelms these unwanted emotions.

I feel free to swim and to bathe there because it’s my connection to the Most High. It is where I am surrounded by dolphins who frolic about this beautiful terrain. They not only transmit knowledge and wisdom via dreams that inspire creativity according to the Zulu of South Africa, but they are also my soul’s guardians: the manifestation of my ancestors…