Am I Opening My Heart Again? ! ? Poem by WIN VENTURA

Am I opening my heart again...
Softly, like the morning light?
After closing it for so long,
Am I learning to feel things right?

I once turned away from feeling,
From love, from gentle pain.
I thought strength meant no emotion,
And silence was my gain.

But life has its quiet lessons.
It breaks us, then teaches slow.
What we bury deep in silence
Will one day ask to flow.

Now I see the rainbows forming
After storms I thought would stay.
I notice how the sunsets never fight—
They simply fade away.

I hear the birds in quiet mornings,
No demand, no race, no fear;
Just life continuing gently,
Reminding me I'm still here.

Maybe my heart was never broken,
Only guarded from too much weight,
Protecting every silent piece
That learned too well to hesitate.

I used to think love was weakness,
Something I had to deny.
Now I see it differently—
A choice that helps me survive.

Am I opening my heart again...
Or simply learning how to breathe?
Either way, I'm not the same now;
Something softer lives beneath.

I choose what I let enter me.
I choose what I release.
After all that I have journeyed through,
My heart now belongs to me.

So if love comes, it will not break me.
If peace comes, it may stay.
I am not who I used to be...

I am learning life this way.

By: — WIN VENTURA