To Come Unbound

Is envy
more or less sinful
than this
banal
attachment
to security?
For in her
I see
Sannyasa —
a holy
untethering
from
these
pedestrian
pursuits
heart……fully……here
and I am
full of awe.

Poem ©2016, Jen Payne, National Poetry Month, 27. Image: Gordon L. Anderson.

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