Our True Work

Something life’s experiences have taught me: seeing the world for what it is makes you smart, envisioning the world for what it can be – makes you wise…

 

Our True Work

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there are countless contradictions
in the elements of the work we do
and conflictions as we strive
but bring these not to table

for I am you
and you are me
and we are all together
in this constant labor
for our daily bread

and this toil to sustain the body
this does not feed the spirit
this is not our true work

to lift someone in need
to measure well in tolerance
to seek the components of peace
to create enduring possibility

this is the true work
in the final sweep
‘round the face of time

this is what the soul eats

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rob kistner © 2011

• linked at Magpie Tales and OSI

17 thoughts on “Our True Work”

  1. “to lift someone in need
    to measure well in tolerance
    to seek the components of peace
    to create enduring possibility”

    love these lines…such a true message in them

  2. nice spiritual reminder, that the physical may be important to live; but the metaphysical’s importance need not be so easily overlooked — and nor should it.

    thanks for sharing.

  3. This piece is beautiful, and musical.
    I hear the Beatles, and the blues.
    I hear the din and the silence.
    I feel your pain and applaud
    your heart, that musician’s
    heart in a poet’s chest, for
    /this is what the soul eats/.

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