If it unselfs you,
treasure it,
cultivate it.

If it muscles through your grim, monotonous monitoring
of what others think of you
or whether or not you measure up,
make a note.

If it picks you up,
shakes you out,
and drops you a few feet away from yourself,
it's true gift.

Rinse and repeat.

"Beauty is a small tear in the fabric of reality that pulls us through to a bigger world" (Simone Weil).

Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.