Inside the Small

200 words | 3 min. audio — on becoming tender and true

INSIDE THE SMALL
On Becoming Tender and True

by Maja Apolonia Rodé

Please

release me from this fear

that projects a world unclear.

Let me, instead, become the sky,

an always-open loving

eye,

affectionate

awareness seeing

all the colors of my being.

I am at once a delicate flower,

the all-pervading Cosmic Power,

quantum bits and wholeness vast,

now, the future — now, the past,

creator of all time and space,

knowing itself through

a human

face.

I am that

which can hold it all.

The greatest paradox is small —

a microscopic spark of light

that shimmers in the

darkest night.

The truth

of who I am is this:

my body is a fractal kiss,

the actuality of bliss

as form makes love

with emptiness.

But what about the pain and fear?

They bring

the tender one so near

to be held and seen and known,

and enter, thus, the garden grown

within the earth's ecology —

a miracle of gravity

and time

and light — evolving still.

And on this day, self-loving will

takes root right here as I confess:

I am not more, and nothing less

than any other whole or part

of-this holographic

work of

art.

A speck

of cosmic dust is All,

a universe inside the small,

an aperture, awareness true,

beholding beauty through

and through.

Aperture

aware as you

behold your beauty

through and

through.

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❤ 2024

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