Wednesday, December 1, 2021

what caused us each to live hidden?




What caused us each to live hidden?
A wound, the wind, a word, a parent.
Sometimes we wait in a helpless way,
awkwardly, not whole and not healed.

When we hid the wound, we fell back
from a human to a shelled life.



~ Robert Bly
from Stealing Sugar from the Castle




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1 comments:

jacquin said...

So many wounded; our own wounds and the knock-on potential of those protective shells make open-heartedness an act of will and courage.