Hold Out My Heart

I can’t hold back.

I must love them all,

Must love them deeply without reservation.

They know if I’m hiding behind self-preservation,

And pseudo-love cannot save a nation.

I can’t hold back.

I must hold out my heart,

Even if it swells with so much love

It nearly falls apart.

By Samantha Lindholm

Written July 15, 2012

Door of My Heart

A heart with ends twisted in all directions -

Friends and faces in all sorts of places.

Door of my heart, swing wide

To encompass yet again

That broad, Navajo sky.

Door of my heart, swing wide

Like outstretched arms

And wrap the Diné up inside.

By Samantha Lindholm

Written on July 15, 2012