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Sunday, January 28, 2018

on the quality of memory

it is so hard
to find a path
through memory,
the jungle of pain

this is a law,
we know what hurts
better than joy past,
trying not to get burned

we lose all precious
moments inside
and must work
to find the light

standing at the shore
of  emptiness, the
beginning of time,
now, we are the demon

who walks with us
and lets us see monsters,
their grimace a warning,
a signal we carved long

ago, they are not real,
we are as we are not,
sometimes it is a choice,
enter or obey fear

push ahead, burn signs, climb
through this maze,
cut the threads of spiders
and disentangle us

from memory loaded
with torture and tears
weighing us down
until we rise and

the wind will touch us
now. and now.
the mask has fallen
and our naked heart

can take seed again
and sing, fragile,
impermanent. we will
be hurt again, rising,

we will grow new bark
and shoot in greens
out of ashes and coal.
may this be our way.





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