Poem May 18, 1981 Issue

Retraction

KARIN SASS

"No one's indispensable."

What's meant as modesty
for some
feels like futility for others.
"I mean—if that's really true,
why bother? Why am I here?"

Humility is not negation.
more ...
There is no: one one
less
Neither vanity nor inferiority hits the mark.
(They're different poses of the same nonthought.)

Ego's One—
and God-centering

makes you bright and wonderful—
beautiful, free, and whole,
invulnerable to praise or pain!

And (inevitably)
one-of-His-kind
indispensably God's.

KARIN SASS

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