A Thin Place

this is a thin place

where only the most transparent membrane separates us

into the living and the dead

the breathing and the spirit

the waiting, the fulfilled

tired eyes and limbs strain to cross the boundary

to see beyond

to touch beyond

to walk in the place beyond

this thin place where we meet and where we live

as we touch the edge, pressing into the elastic division

our reaching shapes the contours of the end of where we are

and the beginning of what we hope for

as naked as we can be

as desperate as we ever were

we soak up divine attention

oozing through the pores

of a thin place such as this

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