When trouble comes like a black monkey
sitting on your shoulder, picking at things
you can’t see; when trouble comes
like a necklace made of thorns that twists
around your neck; when trouble comes
with its hummingbirds dead and dangling,
with its indifference to blue, do not try
to escape into the upper left corner,
though the dragonfly there could distract you.
Dare to meet it with a gaze unyielding,
meet it exactly where you are. Ask it
with your eyes, What do you have to teach me?
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