love and safety

sometimes a deep sense of love and safety

opens up on the other side

of all of this fear and anxiety

and is it true

that each day

we face a million deaths

even as life steals in

trying its best to open our hearts

to a new opportunity

here in the stillness

I feel safe

here in the silence

I hear my heart beating

and know all is well

as also I know sometimes

fear may speak of a truth

and at others is unreal

in my life

a sense of love and safety comes and goes

as a sense of security and insecurity

ebbs and flows

So all I can do is open myself

to this tide

and learn to ride the waves of life

through all of the highs and lows

dips and shallows

for this is the way it goes

in risking the coming alive

with the washing away of the tide

that carries us forward

in growth and change

as the inner and outer worlds

flow

oscillate

and re-arrange