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667 posts
10/29/2023 7:12 am

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the .

It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

uncommon1 66M

1449 posts
10/29/2023 7:13 am

I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

by Oriah

SUB4DOM2njy 72T

1 post
10/29/2023 7:57 am

Beautiful!

uncommon1 replies on 10/29/2023 8:08 am:
These are just a few of
the questions life will
ask of you.

msfunfor 63M

10785 posts
10/29/2023 8:39 am

profound questions .
we should try and answer to our self .

uncommon1 replies on 10/29/2023 9:41 am:
Don't worry, life has
a way of forcing your
soul to answer each
question.

drmgirl622 68F

26132 posts
10/29/2023 9:01 am

Some very good insights!

uncommon1 replies on 10/29/2023 9:43 am:
We don't become wiser
with age . . Just older.
We become wiser through
lifes lessons, sometimes.

boh99 68M

3154 posts
10/29/2023 9:05 am

the poet asks us what we're often to distracted to consider

uncommon1 replies on 10/29/2023 9:39 am:
Are the answer to the
questions more important
or resolving the distractions?

Both of course.

eroticallyincldn 70F

1636 posts
10/29/2023 5:26 pm

you ask most thought provoking questions...
But, I can say truthfully say I like myself...I like the quietness of being alone, rather then a roomful of people...Give me peace any day.

uncommon1 replies on 10/29/2023 5:59 pm:
I am but a student of your writing R.
You are one of the few women I know
that can light fires with your mind.
My condolences to any of your family
in Israel . . Shalom my friend.


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