SO, IF WE KEEP THIS UP...

So, if we keep this up—any of us—
this commitment,
this “totalitarian” (Baba’s word) effort,
through the proverbial thick-and-thin

for a dozen, a hundred, a thousand
lifetimes, seeing our abysmal failures,
recoiling  but having no alternative
but to keep going on the Only Journey,.

Chipping away,  chipping away
at these weaknesses, continually
offering all our good and bad
at Your Feet.

Imagining from time to time
how it must be from Your point of view:
Your Compassion, AND that what matters
is not how much we suffer along the way

but that finally we—I—
will be USEFUL to You.
And then, finally, yes:
FREE
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Painting: "DIGGING UP THE SUN" (2023