To encourage, enliven, and inspire
your journey as seeker,
I am now offering
a "Poem of the Week",
sharing one of my own poems.
Here is the first offering.
Prayer for Choosing to Soften
At best, we will need therapy
and meditation practice
for the rest of our lives,
and some of us will soften
and begin to heal,
and some of us will keep resisting,
afraid to be other than
alone behind walls.
And the world goes on
as it always has
and always will,
warring more
wherever we resist,
and warring less
wherever we soften.
Sometimes we feel like fools.
We could be getting drunk
and screwing around
in opulent, burning fortresses,
instead of humbly sitting here,
becoming naked.
But the love we seek
needs us to live in the wound
like maggots cleansing
an open sore of infection,
like bees finding pollen
to make honey,
like mystics waking in the heart
of the cosmic rose,
realizing what we called self
was a simple portal,
a crudely carpentered door,
we are quietly passing through,
beyond which
compassion is
forever opening.
Soulfaring - 