Living spring

Some days the words long to flow out from you

Like water from a healing spring

Sometimes after days of utter pain

A sense of rising love

Brims over the surface of your heart

As the scars that hurt you

Stop burning with the fire

That provided you the experience

Of both agony and light

These days of peace and wonder

It seems to me

Arise like a blessing

As the inner voices of destruction become

Faint

Then it is you let your body move

Your being open

And as you sit silently by the church

Watching families leave

Beside you

You spy a parked car

Belonging to a beautiful African family

With the words written on the driver’s side

Faith

Hope

And love

Suddenly it all makes sense

Every single tear that fell

Or scream that rose was

An oh so critical and necessary part

Of your healing

Of your understanding

Of your redemption

So thank the wisdom of your Self

That allowed you to feel it

And make a home for it all

Deep inside of you

Realizing with a releasing of all shame

That those who walked away

Did so for a reason

Truly there is no living soul

Who should try to dam or block the flow

Of another’s living spring.