Turns out
The human love project
Is much bigger than that
Integral
Not only aspirational but foundational
Cellular
Yes, boiling chaos and
suffering are deep strata in the structure of reality
Yet all the way down cuts a bright
Trail
Let us look then at life's reflection
In our shields
Not turn away completely or close our eyes to the beauty and terror
That rushes at us
The shape of our stories protect us
Though never completely define us
As we draw the world she draws us
We are not always with this atomic truth
Or feeling it with us
Step on in trust
We are an agile relational entity
We live in agile relational reality
Think Trinity, think perennial
Three in one, like lichen does
Watch it rise up across cultures and histories
Bubbling in biology, that reciprocal web
Let us seek to remain faithful to this fuller vision
Give up our solo mission and surrender to a larger lens
Compost our current heart
No longer trying to save our soul, instead beginning to find it
In all this, longing for a language
Where Holy means wholeness again.
For this world wants the range
Of our collective uniqueness
