When the school of hard knocks meets The study of soft answers Then we can feel our heartbeats In rhythm as the dancers Who present this our ballet Of shared human empathy By which we are led to say I feel you and you feel me
(What shall we say and what shall we do? I move away yet closer to you)
We are all connected by This web of propinquity There to catch us when we fall Not to mention your and my Now-unfolding destiny Which we share here after all We are just the way we are Together and yet lonely
(What shall we do and what shall we say? We move closer though we move away)
Isolated like a star In space as one and only All and each so far apart And yet all and each right here Our shared rhythm of the heart Felt from far brings us back near When the school of hard knocks meets The study of soft answers
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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In space as one and only
All and each so far apart
And yet all and each right here
Sometimes we create the space between us and others.
Great write.
God Bless,
Lew