Day 489: Purgatory
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some people
do not believe in purgatory;
but i believe
i have found
where it lives.
it is such a place
of lovelessness
but awareness
of what love is –
refusing to refuse it,
unable to obtain it,
in all ways not coming –
to the self,
to the other,
from the one
who lies in fires
next to you –
burning,
and never consumed.
i doubt this is a celestial place
but it takes the heavens to hold it;
to hold us in it.
but the promise
of such purification,
if we can endure it,
is a promise
worth waiting for
in deed.
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