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Lifted Up Again by Dominic Chua

“Come to me, all you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28

You asked me to set down my satchel -
We had a good twenty-minute
Wait ahead of us, you reasoned.
Blurting out, “I’d feel naked
Without it,” I was startled
Into the realization

That I had grown used to my load
Of care, the bunched-up muscles
In my shoulder, the need
Not to be perceived as slothful
And weak.

27 May 2001

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