Dear God, please reveal to us
Your Sublime
Beauty
That is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
So that we will never again
Feel frightened
My divine love, my love
Please let us touch
Your face
Rumi per
Daniel Ladinsky (Love Poems from God)
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It is easier than we might think
to lose sight
of all that is sacred, all that is love,
as the planet burns
and foul people consolidate power
and plan evil
as we are besieged from every side
by hate and fear
we can no longer see
the divine
we are lost
stumbling, flailing and gasping
as those in the midst of a conflagration
where there is only flame
and smoke
and darkness
all is lost!
we cry
ah, dear ones
look up
where does our help come from?
who can rescue us from ourselves?
cannot the Power that created the mountains
that lifted them up
lift up you and me?
I gaze in awe at the mountain
after what now is
is no more
after we and our troubles
and those who consider power a thing to be grasped
have vanished from history
that mountain will still be there
soaring into the sky
and even if
“all the greed and corruption destroys
even a place like this
it will bide its time, heal, and be beautiful again,
whether we are here to see it or not”*
it is true!
it is undeniable
on the face of the mountain
in the eyes of a baby
in the wrinkles of an old soul
we can see
the face of God
*this section was inspired by a comment from my friend
and brilliant soul,
Robert Crawford. Who managed to survive
me glancing
a discus off his
skull in high school.
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