largely speaking
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
🔥
– David Whyte
I sense infinity
I open myself to the unlimited
and with that opening
I glimpse unending love
I breathe the cold morning air
Absorb the sunlight dancing on the water
take in the sight of millions of diamonds
on blue velvet
and I struggle,
reaching, to open fully
to take in this message
to understand this beauty
I sit in silence
I listen in wonder
I stay in that moment
for eternity
it is for eternity
as I walk home
I ask my soul’s questions:
How will I allow God to love me?
How will I allow love to touch me?
☀️
AL
photo by Fisherman Dan @ Branford, CT
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