If prayer would do
it
If prayer would do it
I'd pray.
I'd pray.
If reading esteemed thinkers
would do it
I'd be halfway through the Patriarchs.
I'd be halfway through the Patriarchs.
If discourse would do
it
I'd be sitting with His Holiness
every moment he was free.
I'd be sitting with His Holiness
every moment he was free.
If contemplation would do
it
I'd have translated the Periodic Table
to hermit poems, converting
matter to spirit.
I'd have translated the Periodic Table
to hermit poems, converting
matter to spirit.
If even fighting would do
it
I'd already be a blackbelt.
I'd already be a blackbelt.
If anything other than love
could do it
I've done it already
and left the hardest for last.
I've done it already
and left the hardest for last.
~ Stephen Levine
~
(Breaking the
Drought)
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