How to create a childhood worthy of the sacredness of the child
How to forgive ourselves, entirely
How to love without projection or dependence
How to honor the strength of love alongside the strength of might
How much we are held, blessed
What we would create, if we believed we could.
We’re still young, still in an early era.
The status quo is just a middle chapter.
So have compassion for this fools’ world of ours
and don’t be afraid
to be the one
to help us turn the page.
By Tara Sophia Mohr, From “The Real Life”
Have some poems you treasure that you’d like to share with fellow aid workers and do-gooders? Please send them my way at email.howmatters@gmail.com!
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Love this! I found you on twitter (@talichaj) and I am so glad that I did! I hope we can follow one another’s poetry, I would love to hear what you think of mine! Thanks!