It
doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know
what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s
longing.
It
doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will
risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure
of being alive.
It
doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I
want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled
and closed from fear of further pain.
I
want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without
moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I
want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can
dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips
of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful
be realistic remember the limitations of being human.
It
doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your
own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
I
want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty
every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and
still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of
the full moon, “Yes.”
It
doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money
you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of
grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs
to be done to feed the children.
It
doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with
me and not shrink back.
It
doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else
falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Authors
Details: 'Invitation Poem' Oriah
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