Where is God
- Mark Nepo
It's as if what is unbreakable -
the very pulse of life - waits for
everything else to be torn away,
and then in the bareness that
only silence and suffering and
great love can expose, it dares
to speak through us and to us.
It seems to say, if you want to last,
hold on to nothing. If you want
to know love, let in everything.
If you want to feel the presence
of everything, stop counting
the things that break along the way.
(Like most poetry this repays a repeated reading in a reflective, open-hearted way.)
"Death is not extinguishing the light,
it is only putting out the lamp because dawn has come."
- Rabindranath Tagore
