How many times have we spoken about this need
to be kinder, we said, to be lighter-
pretty much a daily basis of preaching
we have heard too much the necessity to look
into the other's eye, to walk another shoe
to feel with someone outside your body
today I wake up with a different urge
to be thankful, to the small things
usually dedicated to in writing
to the graver things, known to the masses
today I practice not Zen, not masterful meditation
but a power sweeping the walls I carefully construct
deconstruct, break, salvage-
how powerful are these verbs and this wave of being
a thankful salmon that swims
in opposing currents.
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