Cultivating Self-Compasion

 

Today 

 

 

 

 

 

Scaffolding

Seamus Heaney

 

Masons, when they start upon a building,

Are careful to test out the scaffolding;

 

Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points,

Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.

 

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done

Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.

 

So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be

Old bridges breaking between you and me

 

Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall

Confident that we have built our wall.

 

 

 

 

 

My friend Sabrina shared this poem with me.

It made me think of life, of relationships, of the walls we build and the walls we break down... and it made me think of Abe.