Some thing I want to say:

This Chinese character, a knife hovering over the heart and pronounced    REN    means patience.   Or it implies patience or what patience might imply.   The Chinese written language so poetic allows for the fact that it may mean much more or something else simultaneously.   A knife hovering over the heart that cuts deeply.  

Constraint?  Threat!  Annihilation--imminent and dangerous.  Or not?  A prolonged and unrequited anxiety.  Unfulfilled yearning.  Clearly, I would suggest, not a healthy prescription for the poor heart.  Certainly not for the pure heart.  Or, ought the heart to be severed?  To be cut in two?  Would that then  kill the heart?  Or might  the heart   exist in two?  Patience may imply the willingness to exist with the heart in two places.  Not unlike a parent   whose heart  lies outside her body for the rest of her life yet beats palpably beneath her breast.   To be patient might imply to be willing and able to exist with the heart in two places.  One in expectation, and the other in fulfillment?  To live with total acceptance and surrender to the heart below the knife?   To wake each day split in two the same way as the samurai warrior who wakes each day to his own death before putting on his sandals?

Now that I have had my say

 ….you will remember nothing:

Or do you?