The invitation

[Sigu]

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living,
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring with your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow,
If you have been opened by life's betrayals, or
have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know whether you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own;
If you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to
be careful, realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

I want to know if you can be faithful, and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty,
even when it is not pretty everyday,
and if you can source your life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine,
and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver
of the full moon, 'Yes!'

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much
money you have. I want to know if you can get up after
a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the
bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn't interest me who you are, or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you still stand in the centre of the fire with
me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when
all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

(Orian Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder, May 1994)

Sigu.

[inger]

cool! mi piacciono le poesie ..in tutte le lingue(basta che capisca)

from inger with love