preparation is everything


you do not walk into a crowd

and spontaneously combust with vision and insight


as if you were a conduit of divine fire

blazing the inner eye with its truth


slow and steady as with all else in life

delivers you to the quiet of contemplation


preparation for the compassion we all evade

until it catches us in our proud fall


and realization is everything...



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