lenten journal: liminality

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liminality

how can two months ago
feel like history?

what was is long gone
what’s next is not yet here

our country is falling apart
like a poorly built rocket

we are left to wait
and hurt and not know

what comes next
but something’s coming

the way things are
is not sustainable

arrogance and power
are no match for

the cosmic imagination
of human possibility

here in the in-between
the breaking open

our institutions fail
and we are still here

making our home
in the middle of it all

grief hurt anger pain
hope heartbreak love

life is improvisation
we are made for this

this passing phase
may last our lifetimes

but we are not
the whole story

living on the cusp isn’t
for the faint of heart

ask the ancestors
who walked before us

and then sing with me
under our sister stars

who have out shone
every petty tyrant

I’ll say it again
we are made for this

Peace,
Milton

4 COMMENTS

  1. I’m in a group reading Kaitlin Curtice’s Living Resistance. Our chapter his week is on Liminality. This poem sums it up and expresses it so beautifully. I hope it’s OK if I share it with my group. Thank you!

  2. Oof. You said so much I needed to hear today Milton. Thank you for your poetry which brings light and hope to all who read it.

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