dancing with rose quartz

and before I knew it I was spinning

this Spring, someone gave me a rose quartz gemstone to hold in my whenever I started to "feel overwhelmed by the world"

she told me that by simply having the polished stone in my hand, I would be reminded to be compassionate to others

I was very skeptical

so,

I kept the gemstone
in a drawer for months

until yesterday

I could sense that my heart
was starting to fray along the edges

there was this unspoken rage
building up inside of me

I couldn't trace where
this unsettled feeling was coming from

but this anger was rising inside
of me like backed-up sewage water

and everyone was starting to feel
like an unwelcome stranger to me

so, I took out the rose stone
out of my bedroom drawer
and held it in my hand

so I could await the promised download of empathy and compassion

AND