Contemplation.

A day with Carol.! and all i can do is offer a poem!

SELF PORTRAIT
by David Whyte

It doesn't interest me
if there is one God or many Gods
I want to know
if you belong or
feel abandoned
if you can know despair
or see it in others
I want to know
if you are prepared to live
in the world
with its harsh need
to change you
If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where i stand
i want to know how to melt
into that fierce heat
of living, falling towards the centre
of your longing
I want to know
if you are willing to live
day by day
with the consequence of love
and the bitter unwanted passion
of your sure defeat
I have heard in that fierce embrace
even the Gods speak of God.