Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Poetry Allow

ALLOW

There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt,
containing a tornado. 
Dam a stream, and it will create a new channel. 
Resist and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.
The only safety lies in letting it all in –
the wild with the weak: fear, fantasies, failures and success.
When loss rips off the doors of the heart, or sadness veils your
vision with despair, practice
becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your known way of being, the whole
world is revealed to your new eyes.

            --Danna Faulds
                              submitted by Gina Thompson

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