Falling Through - Mark Nepo

[Lawrence Robinson]

Falling Through

 I have fallen through,
 and though it felt like dying,
 once below, I saw the bottom
 of things lighted from above
 and this has made the difference.

Of course, this is not the end of it.
Like Sisyphus or Prometheus,
each day re-enacts the whole thing.

Each day, I wrestle with waves
of doubt and fear and recurring
blindnesses, and then, if I suffer
or love enough, I fall through
and die to my undoing again,
to where it’s holy to be silent
and adrift, and there I see the
belly of all fear lighted from
above.

And this makes you and me
and the stranger we avoid
shine like the flawed beings
we are.

It makes me leave the house
unlocked and enter the world
full of praise. It makes me
reach through the fire
in reckless song.

	- Mark Nepo
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