Posts tagged "hope" — Page 6
Loss is not loss when properly perceived.
Pain is impossible.
There is no grief with any cause at all.
And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.
~A Course in Miracles, Lesson 284
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Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
~Jack Kornfield, A Lamp in the Darkness
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I saw her scar today,
a prideful star basking in its curtain raising.
(Her black blouse had slipped too low.)
I knew about the cancer, she had told me.
I don’t know why I am surprised by that flash of flesh,
that red reminder of…everything!
I am not a mother. I have no mother.
I don’t want to stay here.
My interpretation of everything, tired refrain.
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Pairs of blond butterflies dance outside my window—
a bumble bee gentleman cuts in.
Branches keep a tune I cannot place, some classic resurrected.
The blackbird chaperone swoops down to maintain proper distances.
Nature is having a ball.
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