Tag: spirituality

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

Shedding Layers

To participate in dogma

Is to be heavy and restrictive

A winter parka

wrapped in a weighted blanket

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We are a cosmic undertaking

A testimony to the Creator

We flow freely in the breeze

Like a creature of flight

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The burden of life in 3D

Becomes the only reality we recall

To conceptualize the Truth

Is an absurdity of controversy

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To create is to nurture the soul

To conform is to drain it

Surrender to remember

And we realign again

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Our inner guidance is universal

A divine right of royalty

The king and queendom of God

Is a flash in every soul

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Remember yourself

The whole of your being

lift your blanket; remove your coat

Feel the breeze of the Real Way

Limitless Artistry

Ivory hands caress the soil

With tenderness and femininity

Co-authoring the scenery of life

What blooms later sustains us

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Jet black corkscrews wrapped in satin

Razor blades and a steady grip

Restoring confidence in the despondent

Embracing the exterior pulchritude

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Words with the weight of a roaring sea

Mightily cast to millions of devotees

Inspiring one foot in front of the other

Teaching us of our particularity

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Jocularly observant and ironic

Droplets descending down the cheek

Jovial pains wildly shake the belly

As laughter delights in the present

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Imagination alters the once barren landscape

Reaching skyward beyond the treetops

Beaming edifices boldly towering

Supplying shelter to embodied spirits

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To each their own kind

But every kind essential

Not a solitary soul misplaced

Each one purposeful and enriching

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

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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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