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Be still & Know

9/15/2022

 
I feel the arms of depression
reaching for my soul
​pulling me into its cave of darkness
a narrow hopeless hole

a cavern of worry and fear

future if onlys and past should haves
​

spiraling passages 
suffocate my soul
weighing me down 
until I can't move anymore

How do I still the sorrow?
hush the pounding heart?
motivate mind and body?
steady the sinking soul?

How quickly my world has changed
joy and perspective vanished
love and abundance withheld

I recognize this place 
I used to call home

where I numbed my pain 
in the deceptive refuge of inaction

my eyes are useless here
the light shut out by fear

I need to find my way back home
I need to be still and
Know...

I'll unravel this cave
one stone at a time
until it becomes a mountain of rocks
and then I'll start my climb 

with love as my compass
and presence my light
I will walk this path of unpredictability
fiercely

further and further away 
from this illusory prison
I'll find my true home again and again.


Where the sky is my ceiling
and compassion, my steady ground.

I will know I have reached there
when I feel the unfamiliar warmth
of the arms of the universe
holding me
supporting me
faithfully, in all its uncertainty.

Where my soul is free
and truth, my song.

Where I trust the discomfort
this is where I long to call home.

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