for the things
you've been given,
but instead, pray to
all of those things
for their grace;
and resist the urge to speak
or to write of your freedom,
lest you risk describing,
through negation, the depths
of another's isolation.
But the most important
move you must make,
if you really want
to know the truth,
is never to stroll
the perimeter of your life
in order to fathom its shape;
but instead,
to trace the outline
of that faint apprehension
that the shape of this life
is not the only one
it can take.
