Today I am in love
With grief and sorrow
Don’t try and pull me away
Or cheer me up
There is nothing wrong
Let me drown a while
In this vast ocean
I will die ten thousand times
And feel the wave
Of suffering
And my own helplessness
It will be terrible
And beautiful
And, like all things,
Will pass in its own time
I am not the author of any of this
But I surrender into it.
Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay
Here is another small collection of my various outpourings this week.
This week’s poems are dedicated to a beautiful man I worked with recently who I have just learned has passed away. The last words I heard from him said,’ Thank you for your friendship. I’m sure we will remain friends forever.’
I’m sure we will remain friends forever – yes Peter, beyond time’s knowing.
Down here
In the depths
Feeling everything
Holding onto nothing.
If you could see
The luminosity of your being
You would cease all your hostilities
Put down all destructive weapons
And instantly love all things
Beyond measure
It is only our blindness
To the truth
That keeps us at war.
When you let go of trying to control everything
A door opens into a vast new realm
And you are invited to trust life
And not fear it.
It’s the dance of the mystic
In the ordinariness of life
That delights me
The mystic untethered
Shines a light
On the darkness
Nudging those
Who have sought refuge
In the temporary
To remember
The ineffable mystery
Of existence.
Let us meet
Beyond our opinions or beliefs
Somewhere down in the deepest
As two naked beings
Raw and real
Living in the mystery
We call life
Prior to all this cover up
Of the self
We will call it
A meeting of souls
Celebrating the unknown.
You can’t find a place
You didn’t leave
You can only realize
You never left it.
Stop hiding your sacred light
Pretending you are unworthy of it
You are not unworthy of this glory
It’s what you are here for
And all this doubt is just a delaying
Of the inevitable.
Fall in love so deeply
With your existence
That everything
Melts into you.
Come to no conclusion
But walk with presence
In the unknown
Mind wide open
Heart as vast as the sky
You and the world
Become one thing.
Friend, you must fly into the sun
So the light burns off
Lifetimes of guilt and shame
If you really want what is true
You must stand naked and unashamed
Innocent and tender
Before the world
Only this humility will open the door
To love’s deepest truths.
I’m sure we will all be friends forever.
Love has no enemies.
Thank you for reading the words of my heart and soul.
I swim in the underworld
The individual and
Collective unconscious
Seeing where the light is
In the darkness and shadows.
Image by Dorothe from Pixabay
If you are too preoccupied
Searching for the peace
You imagine is in the future
You may lose the possibility
Of discovering the peace NOW
In that sense the future is an illusion
And this is as good as it gets
This is it.
Image by Harald Lepisk from Pixabay
The family constellation
Will play itself out forever
In unconscious patterns
Until one person says ‘no more,’
And disrupts the pattern
By leaving the energetic matrix
Not in anger or blame
But in freedom
By no longer being
Caught in its web.
Speak your name
Into the world
You were gifted a voice
To share your wisdom
To say what must be said
Don’t allow self worth
To stand in the way
Don’t worry about being strong
Or being ready
That day is already here.
Everything denied
Eventually makes itself known
One way or another
All things want the light
The darkness finds a way
To express itself
And the shadow
Follows us because
It wants to come home.
Image by Joshua Woroniecki from Pixabay
Speak only of tenderness
On days like these
Accept love’s open arms
And be held in the unconditional
The heart is revealed
As not made of stone
But of flesh and blood and spirit
We are fragile creatures
Walking a precarious path
With little knowledge of what awaits
Cherish this.
I see the tears you cry
As radiant jewels
Falling softy from eternity
Into the human realm
Lighting the way home.
Poetry of Beauty 