[Thespiritexpress] Poem by John Roedel

[Toni Bernbaum]

Thank you Carlie for asking for this poem read last Tuesday and reminding me to send it out
as I had promised.  Its a beauty!


AN OPEN POEM TO A WORLD-WEARY EMPATH ~ john roedel
 you can’t leave Earth yet

~ because I just flipped ahead about a hundred pages in your story and I read that someday you will be the reason someone else doesn’t give up on their life

 I’m sorry to spoil the end of your epic tale

 ~ but someday you will be the one who ignites

the blaze in another person’s heart that
won’t ever be put out again
 don’t complicate the plot of your story

 ~ you are here to be a lamplighter that hands out

little bits of your flame to ensure the rest
of the world doesn’t exist in darkness
 I know you have been scorched so many times

 ~ to love the world is to sometimes be burned at the

the stake by others who mistake your gift
of compassion as a personal weakness
 I know it’s not easy to be a bringer of light

to those who have become addicted to shadows
 ~ but we need you to be a gardener of effervescent seeds

that you will perhaps never see grow into burning rosebushes
that can be seen from space
 Oh, my love, don’t give into the calling despair

 ~ set your life on fire with kindness and watch how many

other people come out of their caves to sit by your
campfire heart to share their own stories of survival
Oh my love, you are my favorite element
 

 

 
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