Healing

Healing

Forgive me

for focusing on your demons

rather than my own

I have perfected the habit

of pointing to the splinter in your eye

while polishing the plank in mine

I confess 

I will do almost anything

for admiration

except for the actual work 

of earning it

Enlightenment is the end point 

of a process toward liberation

of removing what does not please the Maker

of bearing burdens patiently 

until I can shed them

and live in the light-ness

I don’t know

exactly how it’s done

but I’m open to guidance

I begin

by sliding from the driver’s

to the passenger seat

I receive 

rather than give direction

I stand corrected

rather than offering correction

I want 

to walk into the next world

demon free

without the weapons I carried into this one

without my woundedness

and its terrible power to inflict suffering

I want to be healed