Mind-Body-Spirit, Up for a Challenge

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We may build bridges, burn bridges, even jump off them, but there is usually one bridge we all spend a lifetime crossing...just to get to the other side. 

Mind-Body-Spirit is always up for a challenge, so ... let's go for it, yes? YES.  

Win or lose, succeed or fail ... better to try than spend a lifetime kicking ourselves for not at least making the attempt, surely? Oh, and yes, I have tried and failed at this and that ... many times, but out of failure can come a new, even winning resolve to try an alternative option ... sure to present itself ... if we let it, and refuse to be put down by all and sundry for failing n the first place.

MIND-BODY-SPIRIT, UP FOR A CHALLENGE

There is a bridge between clouds

where we pause,

to argue out a reason for living

other than dying

where the spirit unfulfilled,

the heart strayed

across certain boundaries society

has imposed (conventions)

so much the better to disguise

its worst intentions

There is a bridge between clouds

where we pause

to ask why the world we know

has let us down … or did we

let ourselves and each other down

in the end

for never ceasing to demand more

than our fair share

of whatever peace and love

to be found there?

There is a bridge between clouds

where we’ll wait

our turn to cross … or be left

wishing deeds undone,

words unsaid, lies left creeping

under the tongue,

never to see the cold light of a day

when we must answer

to all its invidious shadows

may have heard us say

We can but cross, we children of Earth,

rise to the challenge of life over death

Copyright R. N. Taber 1984; 2010