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Be Gentle

Be gentle with yourself.

You did not cause
the earthquake nor
the hurricane nor
drought nor famine.

A greater Force
blinds us with its
Energy and creates
galaxies, stars and planets,

Raises mountains and
tears them down,
raises trees and flowers
and blows them away;

Creates Life and then
painfully forces it to
evolve and in our
blindness we cry.

We are born in
pain and blood and
grow with the pain
of a flower splitting rock;

And we are born and
born again, don’t ask me why,
ask the flowering tree,
ask the blue, blue sky.