This week’s Listening World comes from Kani Krishnan.
Going from hard to soft, piercing through outer perspectives, I find there’s hope for change, a better world, harmony in hearts no matter where they reside. It’s all possible when there’s an urge to be.
HARD LESSONS
Rearing peace in inner sanctum
Leavening foes to let go
Lacking courage to do both
Reflects today's world
A picture to behold
For eons to come
As we struggle to find
A way out
SOFT LESSONS
Hard lives harder truths
Excruciating circumstances
Reveal soft instructions
Softer ways out
In gentler perspectives
Seeming opposites
Diaspora of living
Founding faults
Of current structures
Mitigating them with least
Destruction, is it possible
As I ponder, a tender sapling
Sprouting in the cracks
Of formidable rocks
Beautiful!