January 12, 2008
Here is a poem I wrote about releasing grievances. How can we live in peace if we hold on to pain and hurt from the past? Every day I see ways in which I can release deeper…and love more. Poetry is one way to express this. Hope you enjoy it as you bring more forgiveness into your life.
Fishing
I rescind
my recriminations
and revoke
my grievances
scooping them into a grand net
and hauling them
heavy and teeming
as they are
back aboard ship
like a great catch
of haddock or snapper
thousands of grudges
flapping their tails
and gasping for air
exposed – in plain view –
dying on the deck
of my schooner
gulls hungry overhead
I have sent into this world
many angry thoughts
and I’m fishin’ em all back
to be given
as prasad
as sacrament
an offering
returned to the God of the Sea
— Ana Holub
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