It's a Simple Exchange

It’s a Simple Exchange

The energy, love and compassion we seek

Is totally here – that is totally awe-filled.

I shan’t seek to grasp it and make it my own

But to bathe in it – absorbing

Filling every crevice and bone.

Oh! How can I spill out the noxious?

And weedy?

By embracing the handicapped,

Affirming life to the needy.

It’s a simple exchange.

As a channel, I am

A momentary container,

A still – forming gem,

Which will brighten and glisten,

The more that I pour out,

The good stuff He provides.

His grace chips at the poison

For they’ve no place to hide,

To become entrenched – to keep me in bondage.

Oh, yes, giving is freeing

Can I yet be a sieve?

Living simply and humbly so

Others may simply live.