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Ponder
Truth’s Dance
Todd Jenkins
When I tell you
that I speak the truth,
you need to understand that,
most — if not all the time —
it is merely my truth, and only
my truth for today.
That is, I struggle
to comprehend and give voice
to anything that is
beyond my own experience.
The more concrete
and direct my words are,
the more they are limited
to my journey, alone.
The more binary their description,
the less truth they likely contain.
Larger, more meaningful truth,
when it is spoken, written, painted,
sculpted, played, or sung,
is story, imagination, and poetry,
expressed and interpreted
beyond our understanding;
because it must put before us all
images and ideas
that none of us fully comprehend;
and in its very evocation,
parts of who we don't yet
know that we are
are nudged to come
out of the shadows,
ever so briefly, and dance steps
we've yet to learn.
When you feel this kind
of truth in your bones,
don't grasp or hang onto it.
Follow it!
It will take you to the places where
who you were created to be
can more fully unfold.
These are the dances
for which all creation
holds its breath;
becomings by which
the holy is revealed.
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