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~~ I Want To Know ~~
It Doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know what
you ache for,
and if you dare
to dream of meeting
your hearts longing.
It doesn’t interest me
how old you are
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool for love,
for your dream,
for the adventure
of being alive
It doesn’t interest me what planets
are squaring your moon
I want to know if you
have touched
the center
of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled
and closed from the fear
of further pain.
I want to know if you
can sit with pain,
mine or your own,
without moving to hide it,
fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you
can sit
with joy,
if you can dance
with the wildness
and let the ecstasy
fill you to the tips
of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful,
to be realistic, I want to know if you can bear your own soul, if you can be faithless, I want to know if you everyday, I want to know if you and still stand at the edge to the silver of the moon, It doesn’t interest me or how much money you have, after the night of grief and do what needs to be done It doesn’t interest me I want to know if you will stand with me and not shrink back It doesn’t interest I want to know what sustains you, when all else falls away I want to know if you can be alone if you truly like the company
to remember the limitations
of being human.
if the story you
are telling me is true
if you can disappoint
another to be true to yourself,
the accusation of betrayal,
and not betray
and therefore trustworthy.
can see beauty,
even when its not pretty,
and if you can source
your own life
from its presence.
can live with failure,
yours and mine,
of the lake and shout
“Yes”!
to know where you live
I want to know
if you can get up
and despair, weary
and bruised to the bone,
to feed the children.
to know who you know
or how you came
to be here
in the center of the fire
me where or what
or with whom you have studied.
from the inside,
with yourself and
you keep in empty moments.
COME SEE WHERE STROMY IS NOW...
