More From Maya Stein -- National Poetry Month

to walk the long hallway.....

WHOLE



There will be a day you will be catapulted from your own bedrock.

Around you, everything humming as usual, but a scream

will have lodged in your throat, dismantling your song. That shock

will mutate into sadness, then rage, then something so out of proportion

you will not recognize its borders. And then it will be time

to walk the long hallway and it will seem almost obscenely solitary,

you dangling above the precipice of your tiny life, a caricature of alone.

But then, like a great wind, a thousand hands, prayers, offerings will carry

you home, and just like that you will be joined forever, your soul

twinned with everything you see, the heart of the world so clear and close and

whole.


~~Maya Stein (commander of the written word!)



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