Sadness

Sadness

You steal in

Showing my heart

The ache behind the pain

It lies there like a seed

In the middle of a kernel

That in breaking open

Reveals such light

When formerly there was

Only darkness

And so when sadness rises up in me

I feel the release

That is a kind of sweet relief

Allowing it means surrender has opened

What was closed so tightly

It was impenetrable before

So sadness

Are you not really a cause

For rejoicing

And celebration?