That I might Rise

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

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there is a heaviness to my soul

as if I carry in me

every hurt, every disappointment

I have had

As if I carry in me the pain and anguish of the world

At times I would like to leave this weight behind

That I might rise

Into the sky

and yet I know

the true gift

is to take flight

to move into the realm of the Sacred

whole

with all that soars

and all that is profound