Transitioning

by Jane Tawel

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Transitioning

By Jane Tawel

March 29, 2025

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You forgive yourself so easily.

While I —

I struggle to forgive myself the slightest slip.

I am stuck in slippery slopes of seemingly endless slop.

And I crawl up and slide down, somersaulting

in every moment of the monkey mind’s attraction

to shiny or slimy things.

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I seek The Eternal…

in me…

in You…

In them, I see only the anger

or fear

of the temporal.

“All we like sheep have gone astray.”

“From dust we came and to dust we all return.”

“Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless.”

And Yet —

And Yet —

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Transitional phrases hint

that there will be more.

However —

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