The bypassing

Sometimes I grow fat with love
sometimes the times are lean:
free me from all this and connect me to that umbilical cord
which bypasses famine, drought, delight

© Meisaan Chan

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A prayer to stop wandering in ruts

O Camino God, my journeyer:
help me remember the pathway out of my ruts
so I do not wander in ruts
but journey home to you

© Meisaan Chan

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Doorway to God

To ask for and accept help
is to walk through the eye of a needle,
which cannot be done without help

© Meisaan Chan

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Burdenless

If all is submitted before the altar of the Lord
then there is nothing else to carry

© Meisaan Chan

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Water at your ankles

Warm water at your ankles
the human talks gently, softly
as the sun rises, all is bathed again

© Meisaan Chan

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Divine persistence

All the ways you love me!
All the ways I run away!
All the ways you love me!

© Meisaan Chan

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The delay

This leg of the journey cannot continue
until you say yes

© Meisaan Chan

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Rigidity and fragility

Rigidity and fragility
go hand in hand

© Meisaan Chan

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My soul can spike with fury

My soul can spike with fury
and only you can soothe:
going anywhere else
is but anywhere else

© Meisaan Chan

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The end of wandering, III

Those who don’t listen, wander
Those who do listen, journey

© Meisaan Chan

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