One Small Bit of an Infinity

If I could lend you one small

bit of an infinity I would.

(You wouldn't have to give

it back.) It might cast just

the needed spell of letting

you believe that all is now

and always will be well.

There is something bright –

ungovernable – volatile in

you called life. Now you

fight it,  try to slice it with

a mental knife: to split it

into good guys, bad guys,

brutal lessons to be learned.

If you could borrow from me

one small bit of an infinity

(you wouldn't have to give it

back) you mightn't think that

safety in the soul could

only mortally be earned.

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