Our Calling

We are all just walking each other home

Ram Dass

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the strong and the weak

the rich and the poor

poets and presidents

righteous and sinners

the wanderers,

those who trod this earth

and leave faint footprints

in the fabric of time

the plodders

those who plow through life unheading

pushing apart, pushing through

leaving an unmistakable imprint upon

the earth

we are those who in this moment

this wrinkle in time

love and hate

grasp and give

those who wound

those who heal

but ultimately

for all who plod, trod

run, walk

limp, or crawl along the way

the destination is the same

union or, perhaps

re-union

with the one from which we came

for all the road

while intensely different

is ultimately the same

it is the road home

and for all our most profound calling

is to walk each other home