Tagged: care
I will bring you a whole person
and you will bring me a whole person
and we will have us twice as much of love and everything
I be bringing a whole heart
and while it do have nicks and dents and scars,
that only make me lay it down more careful-like
An’ you be brining a whole heart
a little chipped and rusty an’ sometimes skip a beat
but still an’ all you bringing polish too
and look like you intend to make it shine
And we be bringing, each of us the music of ourselves
to wrap the other in
Forgiving clarities
Soft as a choir’s last lingering note
our personal blend
I will be bringing you someone whole
and you will be bringing me someone whole
and we be twice as strong
and we be twice as true
and we will have twice as much of love and everything
Mari Evans
Celebration
“One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. On this confrontation depends the measure of our wisdom and compassion. This energy is all that one finds in the rubble of vanished civilizations, and the only hope for ours.” -James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
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