How much are you willing

How much are you willing ?

To yield when every instinct urges you to harden

Questioning the truths you crowned as indelible 

To dismantle righteousness 

Composting old narratives you believed were safety

To abandon conditioned relating 

In service of opening to another's perspective 

To listen instead of solve 

Embodying inquiry and reverence 

To recognize the latticework of existence 

Understanding that we are all braided to one another 

To discard your armor

Ordaining exposure for deepening 

How much are you willing
To intimately know the line that is your truth,
To stand within it with honor,
Unmoved by inherited reactivity,

Unavailable to reflex or defense.

Knowing this line
Held without performance or force
Is the one
You will never betray