Setting it Down

Setting it Down

I keep trying 

to drum away the dullness, 
swat away the sorrow, 
water the weeds hoping something 
beautiful will grow. 

But, this tug of war, 
this trying to squeeze into shoes 
I have long outgrown, 
makes everything hurt.

And, when the hurt becomes
too much, I lean toward the mirror 
and ask: What? What do you need? 

And I wait and wait for the answer.
I wait until I hear: Darling, it is not possible 
to trade the holes for the holy, the holes 
are what bring you here—

make your lap bigger, allow smallness 
to rest her tired head until 
she hears, until she is heard, 

until she remembers that flowers, somehow, 
manage to grow from the cracks 
in everything, that wounded birds 
still, somehow, manage to fly—

until she sets down the great burden 
of trying—until beautiful, holy things 
can't help but grow.

©Julia Fehrenbacher
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