To each house
its own unique sorrow
This is what
the judgmental
the pontificating
and the well-meaning
do not know
do not fully
comprehend.
Comprehension:
the old world
to gather everything
to take into the mind and heart
everything and all.
For us humans:
the diagnosis
the cure
is easily proscribed.
But as the old folks say
Only Jesus knows.
To paraphrase Tolstoy:
happinesses are similar
griefs are unique and worlds apart
So the bull-dozing of good-will
the opinions of the kind-hearted
and the not-so-kind-hearted
the counsels, judgements, prescriptions...
Had we world enough and time,
We could hear.
But not now.
Now…in order to understand
we must tear down mental walls
we often fear to tear town
or build ladders,
we cannot -- in our humanity-- tear down.
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