<div dir="ltr">Beautiful Poem,<div>Thank you so much for sharing this. I think I will take it into my group next week.</div><div>Thank you for so much inspiration from all of you.</div><div>What a vortex of love you are</div><div>Cornelia</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br id="m_-8540687699661231129lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div><div dir="auto"><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" size="5">Belief</font><div dir="ltr"></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" size="5">So I can’t save the world— <br style="box-sizing:border-box">can’t save even myself,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">can’t wrap my arms around<br style="box-sizing:border-box">every frightened child, can’t<br style="box-sizing:border-box">foster peace among nations,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">can’t bring love to all who<br style="box-sizing:border-box">feel unlovable.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">So I practice opening my heart<br style="box-sizing:border-box">right here in this room and being gentle<br style="box-sizing:border-box">with my insufficiency. I practice<br style="box-sizing:border-box">walking down the street heart first.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">And if it is insufficient to share love,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">I will practice loving anyway.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">I want to converse about truth,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">about trust. I want to invite compassion<br style="box-sizing:border-box">into every interaction.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">One willing heart can’t stop a war.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">One willing heart can’t feed all the hungry.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">And sometimes, daunted by a task too big,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">I tell myself what’s the use of trying?<br style="box-sizing:border-box">But today, the invitation is clear:<br style="box-sizing:border-box">to be ridiculously courageous in love.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">To open the heart like a lilac in May,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">knowing freeze is possible<br style="box-sizing:border-box">and opening anyway.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">To take love seriously.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">To give love wildly.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">To race up to the world<br style="box-sizing:border-box">as if I were a puppy,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">adoring and unjaded,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">stumbling on my own exuberance.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">To feel the shock of indifference,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">of anger, of cruelty, of fear,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">and stay open. To love as if it matters,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">as if the world depends on it</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font size="5"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer</font></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>PoetryLovers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PoetryLovers@lists.sonic.net" target="_blank">PoetryLovers@lists.sonic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/poetrylovers" target="_blank">https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/poetrylovers</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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