My Heart: The Shirley Chisolm Effect (unbossed and unbought)

Letting down my guard to truly experience love has never been easy
But a man that is worth it will make it inevitable
My heart speaks to his vibrations
The sensations I feel when we connect
I feel as though the sun beams solely on ME! sometimes blinding me where I can no longer
see or feel Past hurts and upsets
Love in its purest form

I feel my heart growing warm
Melting the prison it has been locked in
Saying I love you and really meaning it
Knowing how much time it spent suspended in limbo refusing to beat
Because it had no reason to
I'm now able to say I love you
In a way that isn't forced
My heart still unbossed of course yet

It is freely choosing to love again
This time it chose to love a friend who has survived all storms
Tsunamis Typhoons and Hurricanes
Yet still seems to remember my name
I begin suffering from amnesia because
His touch and embrace erases all memory of past pain
Nothing profane in the love being shared
Still getting over my fear

I'm steady making progress
one step at a time
Honoring what life has brought acknowledging how my heart is still unbossed and unbought
yet it is choosing to love anyway!