Apr 11, 2018 Original Poetry
What People Need
©April 11th, 2018
By Vijaya Sundaram
It’s so simple, really.
You, and you, and you hold me up,
I hold you, and you, and you up –
Like the foundation,
The substructure, the superstructure
Of bridges, held impossibly
Over vast, plummeting chasms.
It is trust that the impossible
Can be possible, that there’s respect
For this that makes this emerge, full-formed:
All the components together,
Not one greater or lesser,
All integral to the suspension,
All making the connection
Between here, and hereafter,
And there, and thereafter.
No belittling, no disbelief,
No sarcasm, no anger –
Time is brief, and life briefer.
Lock the parts together,
Make that suspension hold.
There’s beauty in all of it,
And underneath it all,
Love.
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