OPEN HEART SURGERY

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I believe one of the most underestimated skills is the ability to communicate effectively. It is a skill that once acquired you can literally change the world with it. Being an effective communicator is a lot like being a surgeon. Surgeons are people of precision. Depending on your speciality, the more skilled you have to be when it comes to precision. No one wants to be operated on by a clumsy surgeon yet we are very clumsy in our communication with others.

The top 3 most dangerous surgeries are; 1. Brain Surgery, 2. Heart Transplant, 3. Open Heart Surgery. Strangely enough as a communicator at any given moment you are dabbling between your audience’s heart and brain. You are a surgeon. Your scapel is your words. Your anaesthetic is your words. Your stitches are your words. It is only after I understood this that I understood why a great man…

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creased sheets.

My love, my heart and all its content are enough to be a poets muse,

frail, that i can only pray he sees through

your hurts of before

my fears of tomorrow

our unnerving unknowns.

In corners you can’t reach is where my fragile concentrated emotions exist.

Your suffocating grip with

Every crease

each bent corner

and with stains of my fingerprints i’m reminded that you’re my mornings joy and What If’s.

the void you fill forces my shattered spirit to write a love song for you as you write melodies for them in my sheets.

and i will ride on the notes of lust filled insecurity and my defeated love..

I, I will wake at dawn to find the heart to love me for you because you see,

I love you most

Most between the pages where my ink sink deep, where I realise my dreams, where i capture my thoughts.