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Previously unpublished Draft:

For Where Life Has Taken Me:

I am always to be torn by polar opposites.
humility & arrogance

passivity & aggression
Sorrow & joy
Isolation & connection
Gratitude & my blind, insatiable
need for things to be better.

 No matter the context, these are always present.

always in endless disharmony.

In humility and arrogance I have found a humble confidence.
In passivity and aggression I have found assertive transparency.
In sorrow and joy I have found beauty in all things.
In isolation and connection I have found I desperately need both.
In gratitude & my insatiable nature I have found only more gratitude.
and here I am, overwhelmingly grateful.

This disharmony is no battle.

These things--Arrogance, sorrow, joy, isolation, etc.--  will always be a part of me, but will never be me.


~M