Ranking

I fear

I think

Efficiency

outranks

Humanity.

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So much of who I was – before –
I’ve folded up and filed away.

Sometimes – opening a long-forgotten drawer – I find myself there, shelved, sleeping,
and I gaze with wonder – and the faintest stir

of recognition.

Do you ever wonder what it would be like

to hear yourself?

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To befriend the outcast and the lowly requires this:
to first believe they are infinitely valuable.

Many of us – it seems –

(I wonder why)

lead lives

of quiet

little

undigested

traumas.
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Stripped.
On knees.

Washing feet stained with dirt and sticky with muck

A mother’s life

A neighbor’s life

A Savior’s life.

“Spiritual” –

a word that sends us running, as if from

rattling guns.
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I have spread myself like a net to catch beautiful things.

A severe and difficult endeavor.