Inside the Circle: Fifth and Sixth Days

Saturday

Shabbat Shalom

Shabbat Shalom

The rest is upon us

               and may

the peace come soon

               come soon

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Sunday

Hard work: making peace with letting go. 

Process without recipe, no steps to follow,

or instructions. 

You just

            have to

            let go

or not.

You can fight. I know. I’ve waged a lifelong

battle, and more than once, shaken my fist

at heaven, ordering G-d to grant me power

and permission to keep my territory intact

despite death’s frequent invasions. I planned

to “win” by never losing anyone I love. I was – I am – 

like a child playing army in her front yard,

and, just as defenseless, I face once more

the ultimate improvisation, the act

one cannot train for, but must

against all instinct, do:

                       

                        let go

                        let go

and when the pain grows great, read

Tagore and know: “The loss of that

which must go is unseemly when obstructed.”

In the name of the flowing and the graceful,

for the sake of the unobstructed view

that delivers our gaze into art’s true vision,

I ask G-d for the strength and the submission to

                        let you go

in spite of all that I want

because of all that I know to be true

and because you helped me discover that

clutter and clinging never border the

path to Beauty.

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Image 1: Torah by Mil Lubroth

Image 2: A Place for Beauty by Mil Lubroth

Text, copyright Ysabel de la Rosa, all rights reserved.