This too shall pass

“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

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“I wish it would end”

“I wish it would never end”

one way or another

I seem to have a problem with endings

I have a “white knuckle” spirituality

and hang on

like a frightened child

to everything

good and bad

in moments of pain and despair I convince my self

that this shall never pass

in moments of joy and peace

I hang on

trying (in vain)

to make the sun and moon stand still

“this cannot change, this will not change”

but this too does pass

all things come to an end

and in that moment

a beginning

beginnings cannot come

without endings

O Sacred One

help me to the completions

that I might with open hands, open heart open soul

find my way to your

new

thing