Be it desired.
Is it required?
Can it be comprehended?
Felt beneath the skin
Less experienced?
Does it demand participation?
Accumulation?
Confrontation of facts?
Left raw
Or baked through life
Can it be digested and invested?
Intellectual
Or emotional
A pinch of both extremes
Too lend potency
To empathy
Two parted yet a whole
Understand
how understanding
Demands humility
While standing high and bold.
©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
(Stephen’s word)
For the Words of Weight project.
ungrand
a simpleness
a thing we teach to kids
yet in adulthood,
remissed
plain concepts
hard to execute,
when wrapped in selfish flesh
hero
the one who holds
this bold,
under pressures
refusing to let the world
rob
gestures
small
filled with explosive love
a tinny act
capable
of slamming shut hell’s door
Holly Father,
teach us all,
to pour out more
©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
(Lisa’s word for my Words of Weight project)
Locked,
in the safety
of grounding touch.
Warmth,
giving knowledge
of another’s life.
Accepted,
despite the flow
of wretched tears.
Sharing,
weights
without a word.
Intimate,
trust given
and received.
Released,
yet held in treasured
memory.
Lingering,
on skin
despite distance.
©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
(Hug, for my Words of Weight project. John’s word.)
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