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Lemniscate

By Ryan Chan

17 Mar 2026 12:03 AM

What you resist persists,
what you accept dissolves

What you run from chases
what you remain with blesses

What you break into whimpers,
what you bridge with welcomes

What you shut down rises,
what you open up rejuvenates

What you resent lingers,
what you love integrates

What you repress distresses,
what you allow regenerates

What you despair spirals,
what you mourn disintegrates

What you cling to weighs,
what you share returns

What you see obscures,
what you observe endures

What you sleep upon dreams,
what you live into awakens

What you think this poem means may
provide you less nourishment
than listening to the way
your heart throbs.

For who is to say
what is
to happen
when you run
the way your marrow flows?

If we follow the ribbons of the infinite,
in that unknotting we may find nothing to know
but everything already forever within

As the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.
What would it mean to renovate our homes with the wilderness deep within our souls?
Our forlorn pleas of singing songs, knowing a thousand dances, being the poems of dreams,
having the ability to live as, revere, and express all those contours
of identities, feelings, sensations,
all that lives on the wild edge of our sorrows and joys

On the precipice of catastrophe what would it mean
divinely dive into belonging of a beloved community?
And how we can live out this primordial prophecy
without expecting an answer?