Otherness

To give completely

From within yourself

To treat compassion as the truest form of wealth

No small adjustment

For the average soul

To give yourself away in order to be whole

To trust completely

With an open heart

To risk the wounds of having it all fall apart

Seems paralyzing

With implicit risk

But the packaging is not what makes the gift

It isn't weakness

It isn't frailty

It's being human

And it's sustaining

To love completely

And utterly

To give yourself away so unselfconsciously

It's altruism

In its purest form

A kind of otherness from which ego is torn

It isn't weakness

It isn't frailty

It's being human

And it's sustaining