Expectations

Have You Been Living
In a Cosmos
With a Cosmology of
Expectations?

Did The Ones
Who Gave Birth
to You
Believe that
the Higher
Their Expectations
the Higher
You Would Rise?

Did The Ones
Who Presided Over
Your Classrooms
Measure Your
Grade Point Average
on a Curve of
Expectations?

Did The Ones
Who Sign Your
Paychecks
Measure the Dollars in
Expectations?

Were You Led
to Believe
That The Maker of
All That Is,
The Designer of
Your Singular Soul,
Measured That Soul
With a Ruler
Marked with
Expectations?

That There Is
An Eternal Price
To Be Paid,
Reward or Punishment,
Judgment to Be Assessed
in Units of
Divine Expectations?

What If
The Love That
Formed You,
The Light That
Holds All That Is,
The Laughter That
Dissolves The Fear of
Imagined Separation from
The Divine . . .

What If
The Love Who
Adores You
Has No
Expectations?

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