sorrow is the alteration
before extreme dissimilarity
it is the admission of unlikeness
of what one cranes toward
and one's exclusion
from its beauty
its community
sorrow is what fashions courtesy
work of reverence
toward what one would know
utterly
it is what makes it
possible for us to live 
contiguous 
with what we would know
a renunciation
drawing us near
sorrow disarms the passions
so that other life
may live
contiguous
with human consciousness
safely
within this sorrow
is gratitude 
for the augmentation of the oddity
of what one wishes to comprehend
but cannot
you are struck by the generosity
of things being what they are
you are enlarged
by this generosity


from
Living In The World As If It Were Home
by
Tim Lilburn