Keeping my distance

I convice myself that I am safe

That all I want and need

Is present here for me in this place

Of being alone

Separate and contained

And yet the deeper paradox that I feel

When centring deep within

Is that alone here

I am very far from disconnected to the world

And those souls out there

For are we not just

Split off fragments of a whole

Designed one day to reconnect

In love

Through love

 

 

Sometimes

When I am all alone here

Inside this head

Those thoughts of the devil soon steal in

Don’t trust him

They are too busy

They don’t even care

When really everyone is just

Trying to live their own lives

(And so often running scared)

We are not the centre of the universe

But as long as we live

If we stay close to an inner centre

And always remember our connection to the whole

Giving love

And being aware

Of those powerful voices of fear guilt and separation

That steal in

Maybe through stillness

And conquering of fear

We can find a way

To keep opening our hearts

A way to stay

Open to love