The wise ones say there are billions of others <br />Dying to change places with the living, <br />And there are also many worlds <br />Where the chance to live's not given. <br /> <br />There are voices one hears <br />With the heart, but never the ears, <br />And there are plain hearts given free <br />To flames of unending fire, <br /> <br />Changing molten ore to love: <br />Resurrection from the funeral pyre.<br /><br />Patti Masterman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plain-hearts/