---
title: "For a heart that let the door open"
description: ""
contentType: "poem"
section: "poetry"
topics:
  - "poetry"
language: "en"
publishedAt: 2021-02-17
updatedAt: 2021-02-17
status: "current"
author: "Mari Lescaille"
canonicalUrl: "https://www.mlescaille.com/poetry/for-a-heart-that-left-the-door-open/"
---

# For a heart that let the door open

Happiness is it you?

Do I see your head sneaky, there?

My eyes are failing me, is it the fog?

You’re such a stranger, you come masked

sometimes.

You know we can only take you in

slowly, sporadically.

You flood us.

And aren’t we content in our miseries?