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- It doesn’t interest me
- what you do for a living.
- I want to know
- what you ache for
- and if you dare to dream
- of meeting your heart’s longing.
- It doesn’t interest me
- how old you are.
- I want to know
- if you will risk
- looking like a fool
- for love
- for your dream
- for the adventure of being alive.
- It doesn’t interest me
- what planets are
- squaring your moon...
- I want to know
- if you have touched
- the centre of your own sorrow
- if you have been opened
- by life’s betrayals
- or have become shrivelled and closed
- from fear of further pain.
- I want to know
- if you can sit with pain
- mine or your own
- without moving to hide it
- or fade it
- or fix it.
- I want to know
- if you can be with joy
- mine or your own
- if you can dance with wildness
- and let the ecstasy fill you
- to the tips of your fingers and toes
- without cautioning us
- to be careful
- to be realistic
- to remember the limitations
- of being human.
- It doesn’t interest me
- if the story you are telling me
- is true.
- I want to know if you can
- disappoint another
- to be true to yourself.
- If you can bear
- the accusation of betrayal
- and not betray your own soul.
- If you can be faithless
- and therefore trustworthy.
- I want to know if you can see Beauty
- even when it is not pretty
- every day.
- And if you can source your own life
- from its presence.
- I want to know
- if you can live with failure
- yours and mine
- and still stand at the edge of the lake
- and shout to the silver of the full moon,
- “Yes.”
- It doesn’t interest me
- to know where you live
- or how much money you have.
- I want to know if you can get up
- after the night of grief and despair
- weary and bruised to the bone
- and do what needs to be done
- to feed the children.
- It doesn’t interest me
- who you know
- or how you came to be here.
- I want to know if you will stand
- in the centre of the fire
- with me
- and not shrink back.
- It doesn’t interest me
- where or what or with whom
- you have studied.
- I want to know
- what sustains you
- from the inside
- when all else falls away.
- I want to know
- if you can be alone
- with yourself
- and if you truly like
- the company you keep
- in the empty moments.
feb 15 2013 ∞
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