One last breath
Don’t mind your frailty too much
don’t savor your strength for too long
it’s all in you and more.
Find it all.
If you can’t confront
what you don’t think you can handle,
then how will you know what you can?
Some will open up to you,
some will deceive,
some will do neither,
give to all three
all that you are.
That which is beyond body,
beyond mind
cannot experience fear;
you must dance on a razor’s edge
to find that place.
And you can be a very good dancer.
All of the complexities
and troubles of your mind,
all of the pains
and shortcomings
of your body
will end with
one last breath.
Remember that
as you laugh at that which afflicts you.
Remove fairness from your vocabulary
when it applies to yourself
then
put it back
when it applies to your treatment of others.
Sound fair?
Desperation
in any form
reeks
even to God.
Desperation and faith
cannot co-exist.
If you think that you know who you are
then that’s one less mystery.
If you think you know another
then that’s one more.
If you realize the unity between you and another
then there is little
left to learn
and much
to live.
If a word from a stranger
doesn’t seem strange
it probably isn’t.
If a word from within
seems foreign
it probably is…let go of what isn’t you.
If you’ve been touched deeply
only but once
then that is still more than most.
So be grateful
and reciprocate.
If you can’t see the sun right now
then know that someone else can
and
wait your turn.
If all your prayers
amount to nothing
then you’ve missed the point
now go back
and answer another’s instead.
You can move dust
from here to there
and then
another will then move it
from here to there.
Cooperate and it will make it’s way back to you
to begin the cycle again
until it ends
dust to dust
with one last breath.
