The lamp

The lamp burning within you

Is your own soul

If you follow its light and guidance

It will lead you home

Even as the darkest of shadows and experiences

Threaten to bury you

Deep inside your being

There is a presence that will show you the way

An underground flow of love and healing

That can flood your being with meaning

Lacking the capacity to hold ourselves

Open

To allow the experience of pain

Shuts us down in so many ways

But deep inside your implicit memory

These messages live

When you can learn to hold yourself tenderly

Doors formerly locked shut or closed

Will open

And there beside the life giving stream

You will find the way to who you always were

Along with the experience of what came to pass

And once you allow this

Accept this

Embrace this

You will see who you really

Are…

A radiant being

Born from love

Designed to love fully

And to live and embrace life completely