The portal

to deep connection
where you can feel
the stardust
in your bones
and know belonging
in your being

begins within

Immersing deep
within the living
being
breathing
present
self

Following
the golden thread
of desire and delight

The kind of joy
that makes children
deep belly laugh
the kind of warmth
that makes you
feel alive
and whole and
good

It’s safe to feel good
It’s good to feel good

In this place
there’s no work to be done
no five year plans to be made
no need for efforting
or control

From this place
it all just happens

Trust
surrender
whatever you’d like to call it
it’s a here and now practice

This is where
the edges dissolve
and you remember
how immense you are

The way to the universe
is though the individual
and your most efficient path
is that of presence

What is a poem?
Sometimes a prayer,
A spell cast into the universe,
Or a message in a bottle
Dropped into an infinite sea

Words strung together
We build little boats
Hoping they’ll transport us

Sometimes just a list
Made up of truths
Or grief
Or wishes

Little by little
Line by line
Opening the heart
Refocusing our attention

How much easier
It would have been
To give up
A thousand times over

To choose the warn path
Walking in the footsteps
Of generations of avoidance
Toward a slow death
Into a pit of darkness and suffering

But we couldn’t bear it
We imagined another way
And found the support we needed
To do the painful work
Of stepping directly
Into the discomfort

Through the portals of grief
We moved toward
An unsettlingly
Unfamiliar freedom

Into the embrace
Of loving ourselves
We made it possible
To truly love one another
Wide open and honest

There is nothing left to say

I’m no longer willing
To betray myself for your comfort

I’m moving toward truth
While you remain blinded by fear

One day, I hope you’ll join me here
But know this: I won’t be coming back your way