Eventually

EVENTUALLY

We stop trying

to carry all that we know

as if it will protect us.

If lucky, we are forced

to accept that under

what we think is ours

is the beginning

of what no one owns.

At last, we are

humbled to dip our face

in the same well.

It is the look of your

face and mine

lifting from that well

that frees me.

A Question to Walk With: Tell the story of a connection with a stranger that was surprisingly deep.

Sounds True recently published a new, expanded edition of Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness, which gathers twenty-eight years of my writing and teaching about suffering, healing, and wholeness, including thirty-nine new poems and prose pieces not yet published. One of the great transforming passages in my life was having cancer in my mid-thirties. This experience unraveled the way I see the world and made me a student of all spiritual paths. With a steadfast belief in our aliveness, I hope what’s in this book will help you meet the transformation that waits in however you’re being forged. Eventually is an excerpt from the book.