You-Shaped Hole
by Tara Mohr
Sometimes the world feels inhospitable,
You feel all the ways that you and it don't fit.
You see what's missing, how it all could be different.
You feel as if you weren't meant for the world, or the
world wasn't meant for you.
As if the world is "the way it is" and your
discomfort with it is a problem.
So you get timid. You get quiet about what you see.
But what if this? What if you are meant to feel the
the world is inhospitable, unfriendly, off-track in just
the particular way you do?
The world has a you-shaped hole in it.
It is missing what you see.
It lacks what you know.
And so you were called into being.
To see the gap, to feel the pain of it, and to fill it.
Filing it is speaking what is missing.
Filing it is stepping into the center of the crowd, into a
clearing, and saying, here, my friends, is the future
Filing it is being what is missing, becoming it.
You don't have to do it all, but you do have to speak it.
You have to tell your slice of the truth.
You do have to walk toward it with your choices, with your own being.
Then allies and energies will come to you like fireflies
swirling around a light.
The roughness of the world, the off-track-ness, the folly
that you see, these are the most precious gifts you
will receive in this lifetime.
They are not here to distance you from the world,
but to guide you into your contribution to it.
The world was made with a you-shaped hole in it.
In that way you are important.
In that way you are here to make the world.
In that way you are called.
