Oh, my dear one,
how long will you go on 
paying*
in 
self-pity
bitterness
and 
condemnation? 

Don’t you know that
detachment from
the 
ways 
of 
this 
world  
is debt-free?


*With thanks to the wisdom of the desert fathers (see Thomas Merton’s The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, p. 39)