How do we tender the fire,

walk the line,

embody a waking spectrum of both

the violence within–that murderous rage–

and the sacred Spirit we carry?

How do we live between

the harm we are capable of and

the goodness of our natural being?

Until each of us faces that living death,

cashes in the chips of our denial,

we humans will continue to destroy one another,

our earthen home,

and ourselves.

Let’s rise to the task.

We have, perhaps, no better work to do.