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Jenness Gilles's avatar

See you soon! Travel mercies, Jenness

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Here’s my poem I will read at the retreat:

A Lighter Load

by Stephen W. Smith

I would like a lighter load, please!

I have carried a lot of burdens;

Bags of disappointment, heaps of hurts;

Old dogmas and doctrine, which are too hard to bear.

And now, it is just too much; too heavy.

I am sorting through the baggage.

This must go. You must go.

Do I sound cruel?

Am I now carrying the burden of judging also?

Then, judging needs to go.

You have not served me well; served us well.

Hatred is heavier than love. Acceptance brings peace.

To be alive and stay alive, and live alive;

The load needs to lighten up; brighten up.

Whatever happened to the easy yoke?

That sounds like freedom. That sounds like life.

Only a few things are needed.

To love and be loved; to see and be seen.

To behold and to beheld. To touch and be touched.

This is enough. And these all will fit inside my heart now.

I want a lighter load now.

The trail of plentitude awaits me ahead.

This greening inside is birthed now.

New life. New joy. New everything.

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