<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="font-size: large;">Choose </div></div><div><div style="font-size: large;"><i>There are two wolves in the heart- love and fear. Which do I feed?</i></div><div style="font-size: large;"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size: large;">Like your sister,</div><div style="font-size: large;">your eyes are yellow,</div><div style="font-size: large;">rich ruff grey and white.</div><div style="font-size: large;">The belly though-</div><div style="font-size: large;">a demanding emptiness.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;">I will not starve you</div><div style="font-size: large;">ignore you</div><div style="font-size: large;">drive you away</div><div style="font-size: large;">pretend your breath</div><div style="font-size: large;">is not in my own nostrils.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;">But feed you</div><div style="font-size: large;">with the red ripeness- </div><div style="font-size: large;">nurturing care-</div><div style="font-size: large;">she places into</div><div style="font-size: large;">my shaking hand.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;">May you know</div><div style="font-size: large;">what it is to be full.</div><div style="font-size: large;">Come.</div><div style="font-size: large;">Lie down with your sister here.</div><div style="font-size: large;">We have living water too.</div><div style="font-size: large;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;">I refuse division-- and am praying to learn how to love my ‘enemy'</div></div><div style="font-size: large;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Ruah Bull</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>