Pressure - friend or foe!

Certain thoughts bring pressure
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Yesterday I walked this way
Seeking peace
The pleasant place
Place of comfort
And of grace

Connecting to
All there is

How to know
The work that fits
Calling forth
Your greatest whit

Not the work
That passes time
Performed for duty
Shallow mind

But that which touches
Deep inside
Engaging will and
Heart and pride
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Yet pressure is a concrete thing
The potter using it to bring
Beauty to a shapeless thing

The bumps that seek to have their way
Are pressured till they go away
Yet too much pressure brings a break
The piece is lost – what is at stake

Paradox it comes along
Resisting pressure makes you strong
Can have the opposite effect
Break one down and bring regret

As with everything in life
Achieve a balance
Walk Occam’s knife
Enquire of your deepest parts
To yield . . . stand firm. . .
What’s in your heart?

©12/28/07, Glenn Mehltretter