again and again
This world doesn’t improve by demanding perfection. It improves when we reach through our armor and touch another with tenderness. It improves when we bust through the walls of our conditioning, and try a new way of being on for size. It improves when we work through our unresolved shadow and share what little light we can find. It is the small, positive steps that we take when we are at war with ourselves that change the world.
– Jeff Brown
awe…
examination…
it keeps appearing
again…
I delete…
and again…
I delete…
and again
haven’t I already written this poem?
haven’t I already done that before?
What is left…
that I don’t know…
that I haven’t taken out…
haven’t examined properly?
There are always more layers
An onion…revealing more onion
layers…
upon layers…
illusions,
shadows,
truth left to excavate,
healing to be won,
motivations to uncover,
mystery to be discovered,
always more.
God keeps getting bigger
as I examine,
I reduce,
I open.
help me to stay in this mode of learning…
growth…
humble me…
soften me…
my best self emerges within this process
send it again…
remind me again…
💞
AL
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