Day 443: The Cup

 

“It is not your love
that sustains the marriage,
but from now on,
the marriage that sustains your love.”

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Letters and Papers from Prison, 27-28

 

 

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such a vessel we could be
would you but come
and fill it with me.

you can taint the milk with bitters,
and sour the wine with spite,
you can waste the nourished tear,
and punish the vineyard with blight,

 

and the chalice
withstands such pains.

but such tests
do not prove it’s metal.

 

would you not rather a happier ale?
if from the well we both draw?

let us tincture it with kindness
and infuse our libations with awe.

 

please
my love,
i thirst,

and i think,
my love,
you must, too.

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