PASSING MIRROR OF FACE WE KNOW
DO WE REALLY WANT TO GROW?
DO WE SECRETLY WANT TO FREEZE
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR THAT WILL PLEASE?
FOR WITH THIS GROWTH TIME SHOWS IN MIRRORS
THE PAIN, THE JOY OF FULLY LIVED YEARS.
AND WE PERHAPS, WHEN LOOKING THERE
MAY FEAR THE GROWTH OUR FACES WEAR.
UNLESS THIS GRAND CHANGE WE CAN FULLY EMBRACE
HOW WILL WE ACCEPT OUR INNER FACE?
THAT FACE WHO THRIVES IN CONTEMPLATION
THAT FACE WHO SEAKS OUR LIBERATION.
THAT FACE THAT FINDS A DIFFERENT MIRROR
NOT THIS TEMPORARY MIRROR THAT WE SEE HERE
BUT ONE REFLECTING A MORE SUBTLE SIGN
OF THAT TRUER NATURE THAT IS SOMEHOW DIVINE.
A NATURE THAT NEEDS NO MIRROR TO FREEZE
TO PRESERVE THE IMAGE WE WANT TO SEIZE.
BUT A NATURE THAT EVEN THROUGH A JAGGED CEMENT CRACK
IN ITS YEARNING FOR LIGHT WILL RUSH BEAUTY BACK.
_S.W.
DO WE REALLY WANT TO GROW?
DO WE SECRETLY WANT TO FREEZE
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR THAT WILL PLEASE?
FOR WITH THIS GROWTH TIME SHOWS IN MIRRORS
THE PAIN, THE JOY OF FULLY LIVED YEARS.
AND WE PERHAPS, WHEN LOOKING THERE
MAY FEAR THE GROWTH OUR FACES WEAR.
UNLESS THIS GRAND CHANGE WE CAN FULLY EMBRACE
HOW WILL WE ACCEPT OUR INNER FACE?
THAT FACE WHO THRIVES IN CONTEMPLATION
THAT FACE WHO SEAKS OUR LIBERATION.
THAT FACE THAT FINDS A DIFFERENT MIRROR
NOT THIS TEMPORARY MIRROR THAT WE SEE HERE
BUT ONE REFLECTING A MORE SUBTLE SIGN
OF THAT TRUER NATURE THAT IS SOMEHOW DIVINE.
A NATURE THAT NEEDS NO MIRROR TO FREEZE
TO PRESERVE THE IMAGE WE WANT TO SEIZE.
BUT A NATURE THAT EVEN THROUGH A JAGGED CEMENT CRACK
IN ITS YEARNING FOR LIGHT WILL RUSH BEAUTY BACK.
_S.W.
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