Reunion

I bear witness

to distilled patience

beneath immeasurable stars

of humble spirit and ancient devotion

that will traverse every holy site

It is the pilgrimage of the faithful ones

and my sincere petition to be numbered among them

with fasting and self-sacrifice as gifts

held by a multitude of souls

Each footstep over miles

becomes a solitary sacred act

to purge existence and make life anew

And years of these rites over time

connect me to truths of

brotherhood sisterhood

as the candles burn

as though frozen by time

while the frankincense seeps

into every chest

to purify hearts and tongues

stumbling over months of human imperfections

Thus we learned

to laugh gently with ourselves

because we tried and tried

only to succeed in failure

but grace…

GRACE

delivered mortal flesh

at the outskirts of the holiest place

and laid prostrate upon stone ground to sleep

comforted under moonshine from slumber’s edges

from songs and chants of a hundred priests

Removing the weight of our journey

Reminding us of the divinity within

Restarting the age-old cycles of rebirth

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