My Heart Is A Hearth

My heart is a hearth that’s covered with embers

cast clear from the flames that danced o’er the wood

My heart is a hearth ever inviting

warming the children and all that is good

My heart is a hearth of the heaviest stone

laid with the blood and sweat of ten men

My heart is a hearth in your living room

dirty and unseen and permanent

Though I seldom use the word I thought I’d take it on where it lives

And though the veil of metaphor is thinner than it usually is

My heart is a hearth from deep in my body

covered with soil cut from the earth

My heart is a hearth you’ve known it forever

Remember its turns forgetting its worth

From the Song A Week project in 2014.

Mike Scott-ish.