Healing
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
