When You Can’t Make Heads or Tails of It

Week 6

When You Can’t Make Heads or Tails of It

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1.   The situation is threatening and confusing. Where do I turn?

2.   Something is missing, but what? I don’t know. My take on this leaves me limited.

3.   If I got bold, aggressive, easing my angst, I would only make things worse.

4.   What am I afraid of? I’ll shoulder some possibilities.

5.   I’ll do nothing, except stay attentive.

6.   I face it, still, not face it down.

7.   Then something breaks I don’t expect, something else clears, and I see the way through.

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What is it

that troubles me,

that won’t come clean?

It’s an irritant

in itself,

compounding the situation.

If my closest friend

came to me with

the same complaint

I would have

no answer.

I will go to

my own confessional—

try on my innermost

honesty,

then do the only thing.

I would offer

that friend

were he to ask the

same of me:

wait and watch.

As Rilke has written,

see the night

a stone will fall,

a star will rise.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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