Emerging from the
night there always is the light
that finds a way to blossom once more.
And just as today's light seems to be dimmed
by explosive events that we struggle to contain
and reality's cold hand undermines our will
and weaves itself senselessly around
our heart's stem, we may wonder
just how there will ever be
a way to know fully
the soft truth
of peace
again.
But
at
last
growing
realizations
can transcend
the impossible abyss
that widened uncrossable
before our bewildered awareness.
And if we will dare to open our hearts
we can sometimes be strong enough to glean
truth as we loosen ourselves from suffering's uninvited
eager grip where we may find ourself eventually set free and
once again able to embrace the moments that were truly sweet.
And once again recall the joys we used to hold effortlessly dear
without this insistent echo of yearning for yesterday to be again
the thing that sometimes now we may question ever was.
But yet, it was, as truly as the breaths we now take,
it flowed across our life like the very same wind
that can bring Spring's gentle warm breeze
or mercilessly rip our roof away.
We are in this flow even now
as we contemplate this
moment in reflection
upon the pond
where life's
water is
flowing
sweetly
springing
and bringing
into our life's reach
the knowing that our course
through this mysterious river of life
has many bends and swirls and waterfalls
always guaranteed to surprise us into tears
sometimes joyfully, and sometimes not,
but always intertwined around our
heart that challenges us
to grow once more
engaging
ourselves and others,
in order to find a place in harmony's
symphonic matter of matters that matter
and in place of the places we thought we knew
we may find a newly born day that may seem to be
impossible to comprehend and yet can be completely
known if we can see the warmth that supports each
moment in which we stand now in the company of
everyone who surrounds us with loving hearts
that only desire to help us lift our own heart
and be mended whole and complete
as once before we were
and once again
surely we
will
be
