Mirror

This world is only a mirror,

and a mirror is never

unjust or unkind.

No one has ever been wounded

by a reflection.

All this terror and beauty

of demons, devas, beasts and flowers,

is precisely exquisitely as

I Am. O friend,
let us create our own rainbow,

raveling into a glimmer

all that we need for awakening

both courage and compassion.

Whoever we meet, we are.

Forgive me for being you.

Now behold whatever you love

in the mirror of God.


Color version of Dante's empyrean by Doré