The heart of solitude

Here deep in the heart of solitude

I feel the beat of love

Sounding out its note

Never just rote

But resonating

With so much deeper meaning

Here in the solitude

Is where I find the truth of things

That lies behind

All the unkind words

That were said

And who knows why

When the pain of separation and strife

Rears its ugly head

We cannot just take the knife out

And excise the wound in us that bled

But without it

How would we ever find

Our way beyond here

It may takes years

But one thing I know

Wisdom only grows

When I allow this pain

A place to be

And find the way that leads beyond me

To the space where

Love rises up

From deep inside

The ashes of the fire

That transformes all the pain

Into healing

Into love

From deep inside the ashes

Of soul’s broken desire