the unalloyed joy we want to surgically unthread from our childhood past is impossible
it's not that our ability to rest our worried mind or open our hearts like
a hungry mouth, has weakened the way our joints and eyes will
we haven't rusted inside the pipes or anything
its that the system of caring has gotten even more complex
that we have grown even more bones for deep love
so that when we get close to what we love, when our dreams
begin to crystalize, our hearts simultaneously begin to break.
because now, as adults, with 10,000 meticulous veins for love,
we know how precious our love is. we've seen enough to know
how miraculous a moment of luminaria heart is,
and there comes a terror for the moment it will go out or harden.
the crackling of worry and the paralysis of terror
is the spirit's biology signaling to us, that indeed
our joy and our hearts are working.
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