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POEM FOR THE PANDEMIC

3/17/2020

 
Poem for the Pandemic
by Lynn Ungar, 3/11/20

~ 
Pandemic

What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath--
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now, 
on trying to make the world
different than it is. 
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.

And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.

Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
-Lynn Ungar

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    Maysie Tift is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Master Hypnotist with offices in San Rafael, CA and San Francisco, CA.

Maysie Tift provides psychotherapy services in both San Francisco and Marin (San Rafael). She specializes in methods for moderating alcohol and other substances; treating depression and anxiety disorders; Brainspotting; mindfulness; parent-child enmeshment; adult survivors of emotional neglect (CEN); Narcissistic Abuse; and quit smoking via hypnosis.
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