It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for someone who is rich to enter the realm of God.
—Mark 10.25
All of your smarts
don’t fit in the lifeboat.
Your accomplishments
are too heavy for this parachute.
Even your thoughts
are only junk in your pockets.
The ideas people have of you,
even your own,
make quite a pile,
don’t they,
enough to fill a grave,
too big a pile
to fit through
the tiny door to heaven,
the little keyhole
into real life.
All that fits through
the needle’s eye
is your soul.
Why are you
afraid of that?
Thread this realm
with your beauty.
You are a song,
it passes through,
whole and perfect,
and fills the world.
—October 11, 2018