Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief.
The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate
as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat.
The breeze makes the birds move from branch to branch as this ache
makes me look for those I’ve lost in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh of the next stranger.
In the very centre, under it all, what we have that no one can take
It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything.
I am so sad and everything is beautiful.
~ Mark Nepo
From Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness, (Sounds True, 2016)
