Day 490: The Things I Have Come To Know

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the things
i have come to know
are many
yet not the same –

 

i know i will fall
and i know i will stand again,
though when i rise,
i may not be obliged
to the same sides
of old fences.

 

i know i will cry
for lost souls
and grave offenses
and for my part
in all their losing.

and i know that i will laugh
again
and again
and heartily
in a way that makes me know
nothing so bad
will ever be
that changes
what deeper
is.

 

i know love is untrustworthy,
and broken,
and selfish,
and cruel,
and is also
the most beautiful design
of grace and good
that could ever be given
or received.

 

i know that we cannot hold light
without casting a shadow
nor can we live in dark
without glowing –

by the whites of our eyes
we see.

 

and i know this
as it has always been known
by the eternal,
internal,
younger
parts of me.

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