When You Let Life In

When you’re willing to give every single last thing

You’ll give up your bargaining, your frantic insisting

You’ll disband the border controls, dismantle the surveillance

And you’ll stop counting life in units of you

When you let life in

The door will open, and everything will hurt

so much that you’ll laugh helplessly

Open the door to love, and pain will come too

Open the door to pain, and love will inevitably follow