Wholemaking
by Seawalker
Count.
Count them up.
One at a time,
Finger by finger,
Count the injustices
That have rained on you
From the hands of others.
Then,
One at a time,
Count up
What you have done
To innocent others
That is equally unfair.
If the lists do not match,
You are lying to yourself.
Now choose one.
Only one.
Do not fall to guilt
Or self-loathing,
Do not fall to hatred
Or indignant wrath.
Just pick one,
One that you are ashamed
To have on your conscience.
Then make it right,
If not with the one
Who was wronged,
Then someone similar
Who was wronged
In the same way.
As you right that wrong,
Ask that a wrong done to you
Be atoned for.
Do not ask the Gods
To make someone suffer.
That is not your right.
This is not about vengeance.
This is about whole-making.
Don’t worry,
The Universe knows
What it is doing.
Be the hands of the Gods
And the hands of the Gods
Will be upon you.
Artwork by OrderInTheQuartz.