Psalm 62

Whakapapa: I wrote this psalm two days after an ECG. The doctor doing the ECG said there was ‘definitely something wrong with your heart.’ Seven days later, after an ambulance trip & four days in hospital, an angiogram proved him wrong. The poem reflects on my experience over the 24 hours following his bad news. I was calm & focused but felt very vulnerable. I found myself reaching for human companionship. I longed for the simple, uncluttered response of the human heart. The first authentic response that comes before people go up in their heads, offer advice, opinions, personal experience, get ‘spiritual’ etc. I love that. When I received it, it delighted, fed and sustained me. ‘Lion’ is the part that enjoys such authenticity & straightness. Lion dislikes falsity & evasion. I found Lion growling… in his usual rumbling, irritated, manner… whenever something inauthentic & heady or advice-giving was offered.