P r i s m

Go into it.

Serve your sentence.

Don’t resist

the pain.

If you begin 

to sense

the suffering 

of life, 

you’ll awaken 

to a deeper 

reality,

a truer one.

Suffering smashes

to pieces 

the self satisfaction

of our 

ordinary fictions, 

causing

us to 

come alive 

in holy new ways.

To see 

more carefully,

to feel 

more deeply,

to be touched

by the world 

in ways we

had hitherto

meant

to avoid.

Now we are

nuanced,

with a reference

point

for all

the colors

we will

encounter;

in every cell

of our being,

we are sprung

fresh from

our

prisms.

09/20/21