A Little Something on Being Human.

Someday, we will wake up my darlings – and, that ‘wall’ we’ve been building through all of these years will suddenly seem so unnecessary.

You know the one – that dreadfully overbearing structure carved from the bedrock of past fears, and resting on a foundation of misgiving.

In our minds, we believe it to keep us from harm – but, in the end it only serves to separate. From this side of the wall, we see only the ‘right’ side of ‘wrong’ and the justification for our righteousness.

But, in doing so we lose touch with that simple truth which unites us all –

We forget that it is our connection which makes us human. And, one day – your being human will be just enough.

One morning
we will wake up
and forget to build
that wall we’ve been building,
the one between us
the one we’ve been building
for years, perhaps
out of some sense
of right and boundary,
perhaps out of habit.

One morning
we will wake up
and let our empty hands
hang empty at our sides.
Perhaps they will rise,
as empty things
sometimes do
when blown
by the wind.
Perhaps they simply
will not remember
how to grasp, how to rage.

We will wake up
that morning
and we will have
misplaced all our theories
about why and how
and who did what
to whom, we will have mislaid
all our timelines
of when and plans of what
and we will not scramble
to write the plans and theories anew.

On that morning,
not much else
will have changed.
Whatever is blooming
will still be in bloom.
Whatever is wilting
will wilt. There will be fields
to plow and trains
to load and children
to feed and work to do.
And in every moment,
in every action, we will
feel the urge to say thank you,
we will follow the urge to bow.

~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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