Inspired by Matthew Allison, Ep #203
A Poem
A step to the altar, up or aligned,
is a choice to feel naked
between heaven and earth.
The altar must be eye-to-eye,
a risk of heresy,
for the truth to be
itself.
Kings are late
— would they be kings if they were not?
Sleep, if prepared, or go and fetch oil —
the fool is not yet a fool until the end,
and in the end the fool is only not foolish enough,
in staying like the wise, afraid to miss the king.
Courage is a moment, not a series of steps,
or else it would calculate. What God gave to Adam
was Attention. Attend well, not steps, but the moment,
the still point from and in which dances
rest. Run
into flames, for the meaning of flames
will sway. Grab snakes by tails if they are to be
staffs. No world in any possible world entails possibility
of no breathing or facing
fear.
What we are trusted with is never what we are trustworthy for —
there is risk where it is thought safe — praise God.
“My trust” is always “our trust,” for it is never alone:
we can always self-forget steps between existence and slippage,
a miracle in sense. “Bravery; therefore, existence.”
To ask a task of one is to treat them like they are not a human.
To never ask a task of one is to treat them like they are not a human.
To speak to one only of tasks is to treat them like they are not…
To speak to one never of tasks is to treat…
To speak to one never…
To speak to one…
To.
To what? You and I must ask,
not by steps, but by a moment
in which we face one another as another one.
If we knew, there could not be courage, but
calculation. Rationality or irrationality. Less than
less. The ignorance is the gift. We can be anything —
brave. ‘The one who fears is not…’
Behold the child — playing and talking and wondered.
Life is for witness. Do not let the applause
duplicate you
into — a-split.
There are cracks in the schema — enjoy them in allowance,
so that the breaks might be roads in a texture that could be walked
by a finger in trace — but do not become them, as seems right
in touch. Courage. See the difference and be different,
for its sake. Stand out. Standing is only out.
Find the others with absolute choice:
trust is not earned, but manifests, amongst those like a spell
whom know one another as brave, whom know it is braver
to be brave by terms not understood to the mass as rising.
Be foolish in all ways, and do not be a fool.
The moment will come.
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