With Light
(Tibetan teen at a tea house in Saga, Western Tibet, 2009)
With Light
I walked through the market
but there was nothing I wanted to buy,
nothing I thought I needed,
until the smile
on the faces of a few
gave me what can’t be bought,
and in that moment I drained the full cup
I’d been carefully holding
and filled it anew
with light.
(2019)
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