Saturday, July 20, 2024

How to Survive

You don't have to know what your life is.
You don't have to wake today in the summer light
and dance your way into the kitchen.
Your tired heart doesn't have to make
a sound.

Listen. Just keep breathing
and the magic will happen.
When Lazarus
felt a hand upon his shoulder,
he didn't ask
if he deserved that mercy.
He stood. He took
the new life.

Friend, don't lie down forever.
Couldn't you also
be chosen?
Hasn't anyone told you?
The amount of agony
you carry
is only the vastness of your
love
waiting in the darkness to be found.

-Joseph Fasano

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