Say "yes" (Please?)

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

― E.E. Cummings

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we live in a world familiar with “no”

we say no to so many things

no, to so many things bright and good,

and honorable and sacred

we would rather live our lives

polarized

screaming at each other

than saying “yes” to the other

“yes I hear you”

“yes I respect you”

“yes I will listen to you”

“yes I will work with you”

Instead we say “no”

and saying no

we close the door

to progress

to solutions

to hope

to reconciliation, and forgiveness

and above all

we say no to love

and we slowly shrink

become smaller and smaller

our hearts, our souls fade

and our eyes can no longer see

who we are

who they are

we can no longer see

“the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky

and everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

O Lord forgive me

for the any times

I get pulled into the abyss

and say

“no”