The Sun Never Says

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe
Me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

~Hafiz

In remembrance of...

I held my breath. Love is often heavier than we're comfortable with so we choose not to go deeper, farther. Fear, laziness, and comfortability seem light enough for us to carry.

This life is too short not to love each other deeply. It is we who so easily let go of things so beautiful and powerful, not by choice, but by not wanting to make a choice. we so often forget that love is what we've always known best, just like the rhythm of our heart and so many rhythms around us that make up this life.

Rilke

The Panther

His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke