Your body ached
As you mind turned a deaf inner ear
To the emotional truth
Longing for a deeply hidden proof
Of your soul’s innocence
So that now even all of these long years hence
You know there will never by any recompence
For error
No says your soul
For truly the full weight of these experiences
Must be borne
How to love then the part of us that failed?
How to find an easy peace
With what now remains
Confident in the truth that our life
Is not yet over?
Hard to see how I am struggling now to turn away
From deadly lifeless places
Seeking instead each morning for the healing warmth
Of sun on skin
The realest reminder of love’s true presence
It was dark the path you walked
It was cold the solitude you chose
But those inner years of struggle with your demons
Led you to here
With too much time on your hands left to thinking
With too much weight of your past
Suffocating the life that wants
No! Most ardently needs to be lived
NOW!
Emerging From The Dark Night 