SWEET DARKNESS
When your eyes are tired the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own.
There you can be sure you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
You must learn one thing, the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the worlds except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement
of your aloneness to learn
Anything or anyone who does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
Read poems as prayers, and prayers as poems.
Paul Mariani
God and the Imagination
