Seeking so much to give...

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Seeking so much to give,
I have sealed my lips.
I venture instead into what runs in the family,
When my Sicilian grandfather met a Bedouin woman in Susa.
She sprang from the sea and fell,
A disgraced mermaid.
She married the man whose countrymen gifted us
Concentration camps and Pasta.
The saint of my grandfather says,
"O Master, let me not seek as much
To be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that one receives
It is in self-forgetting that one finds
It is in pardoning that one is pardoned
It is in dying that one is raised to eternal life."
Though I embrace the words,
I shall follow my own saint,
The fallen mermaid of Susa,
Who taught me no saint was needed.