<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" class="">Disrobing in Time</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Nothing is easy, but to tell the truth.</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The truth of what I see and feel.</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This somehow cleanses my eye</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and it becomes clear what to do.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">In my pain I forget to admit what is</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">true and things get worse. Because</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I don’t want to be sad, I don’t admit</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">that I already am. Then I feel like</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I’m drowning.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Because I don’t want things to change,</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I don’t admit that they already have.</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Then I feel like the wheel of life</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">is tearing me apart.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The greatest power we have when</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">feeling powerless is to admit what</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">is already true. Then the stepping</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">stones of Eternity rise out of the</span><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">mud, showing us where to go. </span><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Mark Nepo</span></div></div></body></html>