Don’t tell me
what you are against.
Tell me what
you love.
What you cherish
with your whole body.
Being against
contracts the heart.
Being for
opens your chest
like an orchid
bending toward the light.
Now is the time to depart
from the kingdom of fear
and return to the palace
of your human form.
One sweet dark nerve
in your solar plexus
radiates a thousand times
more power
than any opinion.
Let this be your worship
on a Sunday morning.
For a little while,
don’t be against anything.
Only be for.
Be for the sun on the table.
Be for the late summer rose.
Be for tears and the laughter
of children.
Wash the whole planet
in the foolishness of God.
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1 comment:
Thank you, Otto, for these translations!
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