Keep Your Pennies

Keep Your Pennies

...you'll need them for the journey.

Keep your pennies.
Hold onto your thoughts.
Pay attention to your feelings,
and don't barf them everywhere
in your pain, fear and hostility.

I care,
and I believe
we all care
so much
for others,
for the Earth,
for meaning,
for knowing
what it feels like
to be loved
for no damn reason.

Your anxiety is real.
God is anxious too,
and has chosen wisely
to confide in you.

There are places
and there are people
who will listen to you
and know how to live
in the darkness.

Allow them
to accompany you
on your journey
to a greater love.

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And what I am beheld again
What is, and no man understands;
And out of darkness came the hands
That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
(In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 124)

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