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The Holding 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 22, 2026| Leave a Comment »


 
 
Alone, I am too small to meet 
the great weight of your pain.
Loving, I want to turn toward you. 
Aching, I want to turn away.
But yesterday I rested for a time 
on a wide gray rock in an alpine cirque.
In my stillness I felt how surely 
I was cradled by the world so much 
vaster than I. There, surrounded
by greatness, I invited your pain 
into my heart and held you there in me. 
I breathed in your ache, my ache,
and felt us both surrounded 
by vast fields of wildflowers, 
by the deep green shoulders 
of sheer gray cliffs. I envisioned 
I was breathing out love, but more truly, 
I was being breathed by the mountain, 
or perhaps  by life itself.
The weight of the pain was no less, 
but I knew it as a blessing, 
a gravitational force magnetizing you and I.
What a gift to hold the weight together,
to know in my whole being  
how miraculously we are held. 

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