portals
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep!
⏰
– Rumi
Your secret plan
You work in me powerfully
revealing stone by stone
Your kingdom within
Deep calling to deep
I am the eternal explorer
ever changing
ever learning
ever exfoliating
ever new born
ever new adventures
ever thresholds of becoming
ever doorways slightly open
revealing what they reveal
usually just a glimpse
ever fog veiling or
unveiling the next stair on the ever-circling staircase
Your calling is for keeps
unrelenting passion
till the cows come home
till the fat lady sings
and the stars go blue
ever calling me higher
to be my best self
It’s a wonder I can’t easily explain
It’s really all wonder
It’s not my natural way
to keep freely stepping into this magnificent way
to freely surrender my stubborn heart to love
but I have no choice
I have been shown love beyond my humble understanding
I can only stumble imperfectly
but wholeheartedly
in my attempts
to respond
I do it all for love
💞
Amy Lloyd (AL)
life: acoustic & amplified 