BROKEN GLASS

	with thanks to Achaan Chah

you see
the glass is already broken
you my love are already gone
I my friend am already dead

because of this
the glass is precious beyond gold
you are precious beyond love
and I am precious beyond life itself

there is nothing harder than now
and its broken abandoned dying emptiness
this incredible promise of nothing
staying as it is

all things all loves all lives
precious in their moments
of breaking and leaving and dying
already done

so my friend my love my life
break and let go
leave and let go
die and let go

the glass is already broken


© 2000 by Richard W. Todd

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