i would like very much to know
just exactly how it is
that we are supposed to
live
with our hearts open to it
all
just exactly how we are to
bare ourselves
to mess after mess
and let the joy live with
the despair
the clear with the confused
the wrecked with warrior
strength
you got me into this, g-d,
i'm not asking you to get
me out
but let me learn how to
carry and be carried
be a soft place for hard
things
and a rock for whatever
flows
courageously, unflinchingly
open
to your world and all it
offers
as it curls up under my
heart
and is.
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