Sometimes I feel foreboding,
as if a dragon is about to consume me:
my failure or inadequacy, or my guilt.
But the dragon is no danger—
not to be slain, no, not even tamed:
but befriended.
There is no reason to fear,
only grace to receive.
Dragon, come sit, and speak to me.
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Weather Report
Wild,
as storms of imagined high pressure
collide with your acceptable front.
Expect rogue waves of fear and shame,
tidal surges of responsibility,
and hundred-year floods of despair.
And also monsters and flesh-eating aliens,
all imaginary.
Meanwhile the peace of the real world will abide
till you come out again.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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