POETRY | Mark Nepo : Where is God?

Where Is God?
-Mark Nepo

It’s as if what is unbreakable—


the very pulse of life—waits for


everything else to be torn away,


and then in the bareness that


only silence and suffering and


great love can expose, it dares


to speak through us and to us.

It seems to say, if you want to last,


hold on to nothing. If you want


to know love, let in everything.


If you want to feel the presence


of everything, stop counting the


things that break along the way.