What is staying alive? To possess
A great hall inside a cell.
What is it to be human? by Waldo Williams, Poetry – April 2008
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MERELY HUMAN
by
Jamie Dedes
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finding strength and meaning as we go along,
though often caught in a swirl, dizzy spinning
of our mortality; our gender, time and place –
rash precipitation of preposterous events
and disgraceful cruelty, and the over-heated
flowing of crazy lives and loves, gritty and
grim, yet somehow grace-filled and dauntless –
like weeds pushing up pebbled concrete slabs,
bearing our path’s weight, reaching for the sun
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Photo credit ~ Jess Norman, Public Domain Pictures.net.
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Grace-filled – for sure. How else – and why not reach for the sun? This being human can hurt so strangely that remembering the sun is dauntless salvation.
You are so very beautiful, Jamie.
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🙂 Ha! Thanks, dear Amy. It takes on beauty to recognize another.
Jamie
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I like your take on our human-ness, Jamie.
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Thanks, Gayle.
I hope you are not in line for Irene … I hear it’s heading your way.
Jamie
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