When I really get honest

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Some days I can get clear-headed enough to express what I really want.  Other days, I get muddled.  What hounds me then are the things I think others want of me.  Here's a poem, an intention for the day, I set for myself a few months ago.  I want it again today . . . regardless of all the things others may want of me.

 

As If I Were Blind

 

I want to touch each thing 

as if I were blind—

that lovingly, 

that aware.  

 

And behold the whole world with

 

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