In a Dark Night . . .

TO HAVE a hope and no regrets

To have given everything

And know it is nothing

To be secure in not knowing

Assured of your own calling

To take the burden lightly

That was beyond bearing

And know, one was unworthy

Of any of these:

A moon path in a dark night

That always led to you:

A star that was always there

Where you stood

                                            * 

THE PETALS open out to receive the light

It is another part within the flower, which can

Travel onward into seed to perpetuate life

The assimilation of light into life, in yet another

I had experienced that my heart torn asunder
Could carry my mind’s

Every finding further and deeper

And that it wasn’t necessary

For the outer parts of it to understand

In order to meet with the central thing

Derive delight and light in the inward part

Lifting the glory of love’s lessons there

Which taught life and gave me seed

For making me littler  

For the littler I was the lighter I became

And the lighter I became the happier I was

Which wasn’t by more but by less *                               

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                                               * The Ragged Writings of Everland; Volume One