THE QUESTION
(for Jude Jordan Kalush, who asked the question)
All day, I replay these words:
Is this the path of love?
I think of them as I rise,
as I awake my children,
as I wash the dishes,
as I drive too close
behind the slow blue Subaru.
Is this the path I love?
Think of these words as I stand in line
at the grocery store,
think of them as I sit on the couch
with my daughter.
Amazing how quickly six words
become compass, the new lens
through which to see myself in the world.
I notice what the question is not,
Not, “Is this right?”
Not, “Is this wrong?”
It just longs to know
how the action of existence
links us to the path of love.
And is it this? Is it this?
All day, I let myself not be too certain
Of the answer. Is it this?
Is this the path of love? I ask
As I wait for the next word to come.
~Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ~ from her webpage A Hundred Falling Vails
Published in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection & Joy, edited by James Crews and Danusha Laméris
Invitation: “Is this the path of love?”
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The Question is the closing of the meditation by Tara Brach - (link)
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Leading my days with, "Is this the path of love?" Thank you, Jean and Pat.
This seems so simple, and profound. And right, and helpful. "Is this the path of love? I ask
As I wait for the next word to come." I am grateful for this insight from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.