I have just finished a course in "Gratitude and Awe". This poem surfaced and I have sent it to
friends experiencing the grief process. Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to you all.
ADRIFT
Everything is beautiful
and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief.
The light spraying
through the lace of the fern
is as delicate
as the fibers of memory forming their web
around the knot in my throat.
The breeze makes the birds move
from branch to branch
as this ache makes me look for those I've lost
in the next room,
in the next song,
in the laugh of the next stranger.
In the very center, under
it all, what we have
that no one can take
away and all that we've lost
face each other.
It is there that I'm adrift,
feeling punctured
by a holiness that exists
inside everything.
I am so sad and everything is beautiful.
—Mark Nepo
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