Monday, May 2, 2011

the way in the way out

Heinrich

Heinrich is a force of nature,

he’s tied to the life-force
that drives the seed to grow
and become so much more
than it seemed it ever could be,
that drives one to find another
and we become so much more
than it seemed we ever could be,
and sometimes that drive can lead to children
who reach to the future,
a rope over the chasm before us,

individuality should be far more than self-indulgence,
for when we are true to the uniqueness
that is the best of who we are,
we somehow become closer to the universal,
the way in the way out,

Heinrich is larger than life and he is still only himself,
he is so true to his own gifts
that all of us who know him grow larger, too,
truer to our own gifts
as we laugh and risk and let ourselves be real,
to be real like our beloved Viking.












by Henry H. Walker
April 30, ’11

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