Filled with light

Through the light you showed me

There is beauty and truth in this world

Despite so much terror and darkness

And that even when storm clouds gather

Something is preparing

To come to the surface

To be released

If only we were

As wise as nature

As willing to surrender

Willing ourselves to be buffeted

While remaining

Like the stem of a young willow sapling

Tender and supple

But instead at times

Our hearts grow rigid and hard

Filled with so much pain

We keep inside

Running round again and again

Our stories of loss and hurt

He (she) done me wrong

Forgetting that is about someone else’s game or shame

Not ours

When if we were like nature

Allowing the storm to rise

And blow through

Abiding in hope until it passed

Until again there are blue skies

Witnessing the return of the light

That comes

When everything is washed clear again

But when we are in a storm

Vision is obscured

Clouds before our eyes

And thunder in our hearts

Can we instead

Find a way

To hold steady

With the rumbling tearing and shaking

 If so

In time we will be changed

Emptied in some way of our tumultuous past

Vision cleared

Finding ourselves at last

Kneeling knee deep in a green field

Nourished by rain

Out entite body and soul

Filled with light