Draw comfort

Draw comfort where you can

In this world of strangers

Where promises so often lead to disappointment

Where rain and windstorm so often follow sun

Life is so often tinged

With the deeper hues of sadness

That are left in the wake of connections

Which break

Leaving  barrenness and emptiness in their wake

But comfort comes from the heart that stays open

To this suffering, able to feel it all

And a mind that can encompass loss and uncertainty

When we draw comfort from within

We find a place where everything

Every feeling response can be witnessed

And welcomed inside

A place where resistance lets go

A heart that opens brings comfort

To ghosts and shadows

And soothing healing love and words

Become the balm we use to nurture

Tender raw wounds

Until they heal

Lleaving us with scars

Some say to give up hope is negativity

But to me it is living in a reality

With a deepening acceptance of all that comes

Innocents whose hearts were never broken hope

But we who have known both the bleeding and the burning

That turns all to ash

Are wiser

No comfort comes from restlessly seeking outside

And we souls can find no peace

Seeking and seeking forever lost

In a world

That does not see as deep

As a fully conscious soul dives