It’s hard to dislike anyone while they’re sleeping.
If you are cynical about people,
be with strangers as they sleep.
Roll up trouser legs and sleeves, treat pain,
cover with blankets, step away. Repeat.
When your soul is lonely, when you’ve lost your anchor,
lean in to speak in whispers, in gestures,
in silent rocking laughter.
If you struggle with trust,
remain alert among the resting.
Watch over the slack-jawed, the heavy-lidded
drowsing through sirens and city buses
braking twenty feet away on East Broadway.
If you think that you are no good
inadequate, never-ever enough,
softly wake someone you’ve just met,
send them off slow and smiling
and welcome in the next one
to heal both of you
Author: Lisa Baird
Lisa prefers fireflies to fireworks, reverts to bluntness in stressful moments, would happily wear legwarmers year-round, and probably wants to be your friend.
lovely
more poetry…more poetry!
that’s awesome 🙂
that’s awesome 🙂
gorgeous!
Thank you.
Thank you, I love this!
& it would look beautiful on my clinic wall, with attribution, of course.
Would that be OK?
beautiful!
Little Bird Community Acupuncture
Washington, DC
http://www.littlebirddc.com
Me too!
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Me too!
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sweet
What a sweet good morning as I start my day in clinic. Thanks.
– Michelle Faucher
beautiful. 🙂
beautiful. 🙂
perfect
what a great thing to read right at the end of an amazing busy shift…each sleeping patient who had told me the woes of especially their work days making me grateful that my workday consists of making theirs better by helping them fall asleep to the sounds of traffic/ocean waves …
sigh. thanks.
Gabe – WCA-Hillsdale
yes absolutely!
(thank you!)
more than ok –
…thanks for appreciating.
Coming right up.
Coming right up.
Beautiful
At the end of a long day these words brought a smile and a deep, needed breath.
right on sister!
right on sister!