[Thespiritexpress] Poem by John Roedel

[Avamir Nasoff]

So happy to read this poem and have it in print to read again and again!!!
Thank you for your gift of poetry, Toni!
Your’s and the ones that ignite your heart and spring forth to be shared!

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 8:07 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> 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!
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> 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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