Tag: spirituality

The balance of darkness and the light

I cannot find balance
Without loving darkness
In equal measure to the light

Before the sun

Unsaturated pastels
Hushed details
Settled sea
Slumbering land
Quiet calm

Sun in the night
Awakens me from slumbers
Ascending into consciousness

Crisp and cold
The night air
Sounds, sharp and clear
Amplifying presence

Nothing lightens the burden
Like a hearty guffaw
Like deep laughter
Rising up from the depths
Clearing me of the darkness
Lifting up the weight

It has always been
When following a path
With iron-clad conviction
That I find myself
Furthest astray

One day in practice
Mind quiet
Body still
I sensed a flame
Burning deep within

As I turned
My mind to it
It rose
And rose again
Into a mighty fire

Startled
I turned away
Tamped it down
Put it away
Returning to my quiet

She saw me
She saw right through me
To the other side of a nothingness
I wasn’t able to fill
Wasn’t able to see in myself

And I couldn’t see her at all
Well, what I saw was fractured
Misaligned
But that wasn’t her
It was all I could see

Do you want to know peace?
Be peace
Do you want to have peace?
Give peace

What is peace?
Awakening

Are you going
The way I am going
The way I am going there?

Then let us share The Road
Together

The intermittent rain comes down
Over millions of years, seems steady
Washing away
Uncovering
Leaving spires and hoodoos
Revealing forms underlying