
Finding strength to carry weight
Holding sacred playing out fate
No simple answers easy decisions
One foot next continue revisions
Joy known honors self
Also sadness heartsickness felt
Sitting on edge things unraveling
Voices at odds soon the shattering
When young life seemed simple
Trauma an unwanted pimple
Now older know less and more
Complex experience we’re here for
Not easier moving down our path
Tests increase need nuanced craft
When pressure more than we can bear
A road beckons from over there
Back to a time in youth
Expectant triumphant simplistic truth
Those days in the distant past
Generate solace in your private mass
What provides strength when feeling emotional and spiritual challenges?
What moves, nurtures and sustains you?
– Stewart Levine ©
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