The Longest Suffering

Poem by H.R. Harper

Your depression
is doable.
 
A quip, a backrub,
a breath chasing the sun
down the spine
and then silence in place of
either correction or
sympathy.
Touching your shoulder.
that is so sore
from the grand weight
your mind entrusts
to you
and me.
 
But anger?
I catch the fire
and we see
who can burn the house
down
first.

HR Harper is a writer living in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of meditation and kenotic traditions, he writes to understand the nature of human consciousness in a natural world humans seem to be ignoring and destroying. He began to publish in 2021.

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