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 Middle PositionThe meaning of the loving perspectivecomes often near middle age the middle way betweenloathing and adorationhopefulness and resignation between the force and the quivering the believing and the finally living here everything radiates outwardaway from the Eliotian still pointilluminating both past and futurehere there is no lightdelineating any difference between you or mefrom this pointeverything is seenneither clearly nor cloudyfrom here on outold as you areyou ’ll never be any youngerwhat arises is a gratitudefor the missing father the lost love the never said words the thwarted passionwhose very absence codifies the importanceof presence like a hot iron branding after the cooling, what emergesis the wisdom of knowingin a man who sees the spacescarved from invisible stonethat only he could ever seeLove is presence in absence one demands the other love breathes into existencethe space that only love itself can fillIt isn ’t the middleit isn ' t the halfway pointneither beginning nor end it isn ’t anything it isn ’t nothing let ’s just say—Everything all at once 11/12/22

Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 13, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs