Poem: I Must

[Jack Martin Leith]

Big thaks to Jeff and Tenneson.

The poem explains why I sometimes do things without knowing why, that seem
crazy or reckless or premature, that annoy and anger others and me.

Jack

Jack Martin Leith
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2008/6/18 Jeff Aitken <magic.teams at hotmail.com>:

> Forwarding this short piece and poem, which was posted to the Art of
> Hosting list by Tenneson Woolf. It reminds me of Harrison's old phrase
> "crossing the Open Space", that act of diving into the unknown, often
> whether we feel ready or not:
>
> "I have been reading poetry written by my grandmother. My daughter and I
> are compiling them into a book. It is great delight to read these with Zoe,
> my soon to be 13 year-old. Grandma, Lena Ross, died this past April. She was
> a feminist, a visionary, a gifted leader, a tough warrior, a beautiful
> midwife. She was a host before we began speaking of hosting.
>
> In this poem, I love the sense of inner awakening that she speaks. And
> perhaps a little on what we speak of as the chaordic path.
>
> A little offering to the center – this poem by my grandma that speaks of a
> churning that I know in me and in each other in this hosting work."
>
> I MUST
>
> grow and I must stretch and
> feel the unrest and discontent
> with my own circumstances
> no matter
> how comfortable I have made them
>
> the need to grow begins to haunt me
> when I grow too comfortable
> I cannot explain it
> nobody taught me how to explain it
> there are no words
> just the constant ache to expand a little
>
> and feeling that need
> like a tooth that needs fixing
>
> and needing also some place in  which to do it
> and there being no arena for me, woman
> child
> and man too sometimes man – humanity
>
> and there being none
> for my need and
> the awful ignorance of how to fill it
>
> and I must fulfill
> this need somehow
>
> from my not knowing any other way
> I consciously and unconsciously must
>
> CREATE SOME CHAOS
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