I want to talk about
the things we try not to talk about
Why?
Because it is too painful
Because we do not wish to show
Our suffering
Our sadness
Our hopelessness
Our wounds
We are these things
We are our stories
Our lives
Our hopes and our hopelessness
We are allowed to FEEL
and to SPEAK
The TRUTH
Of who we are
And what we feel
ALL of it
The Ugly and the Beautiful
We are magnificent
Because we embrace
And embody
And transcend
Moment by moment
Our personal crushing sorrows
Our physical suffering
Our despair for the earth
And our unbearable disappointment in humanity
We are a living miracle
Falling and rising
Weeping and rejoicing
We do not have one without the other
We are our sorrows and our joys
We are the bitter and the sweet
We are the brokenhearted and the victorious
Let us proclaim it all
With reverence
Let us not run
From the deepest darkest places
For there and only there
shall we begin to find our way to the light
