Melancholy
A lovely word
So many try and avoid it
I can’t
“What’s wrong?” He says
“Nothing” I answer
What else can I say that makes sense?
“Oh you know – it’s just all the sadness of the world weeping into my bones
Like smoke
Fumes
Worrying over pictures
Imagery consumed
Through newspapers
Tv”
I could avoid it
But maybe they need it
My prayers
My thoughts
My breath in taking their sadness
My breath out
Sending them peace
And who knows
Who knows where our love ends up
Where our thoughts go
Maybe it isn’t God that sends relief
But thousands of other human souls
Breaking their hearts open
Sending
Love
Breathing kindness into the world
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It’s easy to be numb
Distracted
To feel compassion to the point of pain and then close off
Because it hurts
In the end this adds to more problems in the world
I agree – compassion is hard and it hurts but perhaps try
Tonglen meditation.
And link to Pema Chodrin video explaining the practice
It helps to sit with the more difficult things if we can feel like we are not entirely useless
And who knows where our love goes
*if you liked this post you may like Imbuing heaviness – is the situation as it is or as you think it? Or Do not engage the Parrot in Conversation
