Tag: love

Dark Night of the Soul

Deep in the darkness

your heart may lurk

solitary, frozen, fearful

despair feels somehow restorative

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The fantasies come along

An existence absence of you

The sadness thick; isolation never-ending

Every door on which you knock is closed

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The intensity of the thoughts thicken

You are but a wretched person

You have solely yourself

Insignificant in the universe

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You begin to question

Why did I come

This could not have been a choice

Anything else would have been better

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The ego moves you slow like molasses

You forget who you are

You slip farther away

You feel comfort in the cavern

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The earth shakes; you have hit the bottom

As your body slams onto the earth

A singular thought arises

I do not want to be with myself any more

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Something curious happens

The thought makes you realize

You are not the sum of your experience

Who is “you”? Who is “yourself”?

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An awareness of distinction

Clears your skies of consciousness

The dark sky altered your perception

But abruptly you have shifted

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Grasping the blackness

Amplifies the beauty of the light

One cannot exist without the other

Harmoniousness becomes you

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Your radiant glow spreads

To the totality of what your touch

And your dark night of the soul

Brings others into their beauty

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A blessing in disguise

A deliverance from terror

The experience assists you

And millions will learn from you

Didymus

Didymus

Fearful wanderers

Dreading solitude

But somehow yearning for it

The universe had stamped us

With the eternal burden of empathy

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A sense of purpose

Created a sense of alienation

Another swain that drained the cup

And left us with jaded hearts

Blessed unions did not exist

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A restored faith

Opened the eyes of our hearts

When serendipitous moments

Created spiritual ecstasy

And for once unfiltered freedom

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Healing of ourselves

Spanned across generations

And so did the spark

That kept us strong

The fire of the selfsame field

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Each time we wandered back

We expanded in space and time

Sometimes we were broken

And other times we dissipated

But now we are everything

—

The wounds healed quicker

And the mission grew stronger

As life became fantastical

And drew reality into the surreal

Our energies channeled as one

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Existence is twofold

The masculine and the feminine

Before, present, and after

We will search until success

Because together we are whole

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The eternal hum

Some blessed hearts remind us

In a breathless papyrus whisper

Or in a laud of praise

Even the sanctified itinerary

It simulates the ubiquitous thrumming

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Others remind us in the harvest

With hues of golds and amber

Even the scientist intimates it

When the spark of light surges

And we start at the beginning again

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The tranquility of the stream mirrors it

But so does the crash of the earthquake

It can be heard in a simple cricket trill

And in the surge of the tornado

It is somehow placid but explosive

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Every clangor of a parade

Every thrash in a mosh pit

Every child with a stick

The variations are endless

But they expose the same truth

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It is uncovered in a flower’s bloom

We affirm it in the moon’s rise and fall

The engine that fuels all of us

Denies our self-contained egoism

Constructed or organic; the beat goes on.

Listen

As the warmth rises up in morning glory,

I ponder in quiet curiosity

I ponder like the Mother did

when greeted by the sweet emissary

I plant like a statue and yearn

I wait for heaven to present herself

The course is unknown and winding

In truth it is never-ending

The divine courier places a message in my palm

But the page is nearly blank

Except for a word in bold—

“Listen” She tells me

Listen to the echo of the Great I Am

It subsists in every soul you meet

Every being is a piece of the Infinite Puzzle

And your purpose lies within their words

Every pain, pleasure, insight, and inquiry

All connections with the perceived other

They led you to the present moment

To the most authentic you

Devote yourself to the service of others

For I told you the last shall be first

In time your heart will become cloudless

But first you must listen