Burdens

Yesterday a dump truck came to the empty lot across the street
And dumped fifty massive boulders onto the earth.
As they crashed from truck to ground the house shook,
The dog barked: a catastrophic sound.

When I looked out the window at the giant pile this morning I thought:
It must weigh many tons,
The earth should have caved in,
And swallowed them -
So heavy...
And I thought,

The heart is like that:
The Human Heart:
It bears such loads:
It carries all of humanity -
And does not swallow it,

It holds.