An Open Secret

There are
sonograms and
MRI’s,
mammograms and
X-rays.

Photographs and
autographs,
sound
recordings and
videotapes.

A thousand ways
to measure and
describe.

You have a
fingerprint, a
footprint, a
hat size, a
girth.

A certificate
to mark your
birth
and one
to note your
death.

But it’s an
open
secret

that the
measurement
you crave,

the one you
want all
eyes
to see,
especially
your own,

is
that Thing
that opens
every necessary
door.

That Thing
that charts the
contours
of your
precious,
genius
Soul.

Photo by Kobby Mendez, UnSplash