In 2016 I had the pleasure of going to the HeartMath Institute in Boulder, California. I really had no idea what to expect from an organization that studies the power and intelligence of the heart, but I imagined something simultaneously clinical and inviting, as paradoxical as that may sound.

A spoken word poem I wrote while living in South Korea at age 22.

This is the third morning I've been awoken at around 5am and I’ve finally taken the hint and just started writing. I use to know this about a year ago, when this would happen I just need to get a pen to page and write…