Listen: mildness
is not a deficiency; it's
a resource. In fact,
if its concentration
on Earth should ever start
to lessen,
(gently) endeavor
to make up the difference.
The most patient way
emphatically articulating
the great mystery
of how it can
that even
The most patient way
is, day after day, to simply
keep singing—
emphatically articulating
(albeit with a lenient,
compassionate tongue)
the great mystery
of how it can
even be at all
that even
your despondency
is a warm and tender thing,
since, to be truly
outraged, or vindictive,
or afraid
posits, at its
is a warm and tender thing,
since, to be truly
outraged, or vindictive,
or afraid
posits, at its
center, a
resonant relation—
a harmonic
communication
with every other feeling.
