Moving towards love

I will keep moving towards you,
for you have become a part of everything,
like the burst of light on the horizon,
and the meandering mossy trail -
you remind me to marvel
at all the little treasures.
I hear you cheering me on in the hum
of life, in the whispers of Wind
and the song of River,
your truth rings clear.
I will keep listening,
for you remind me
I cannot do it wrong,
that life is found in Being,
and each moment is a choice.

I will not turn away,
even though the tears still fall easily.
I have grown soft you see,
but maybe this is not a bad thing,
to feel with a heart cracked open,
to be overcome by the gift of life
and find hope in the glimmer that
shines through the veil.
You show me how to find beauty
even in the shadows
and to trust that impermanence
is a gateway
to unimaginable possibilities.

The world tells me
to tuck my grief away,
to move on, to accept,
but what if acceptance is this,
finding a new way that includes you,
not as you were,
not the story,
not the weight of it all,
but the lightness,
the sweet, luminous essence of you,
that is what I will keep moving towards,
because it’s just like moving
towards Love.

Enlightened Grief

Through my sorrow,
I inch closer to a threshold
where my grief becomes
a portal to more light,
not a stone of remembrance
but an ember that illuminates
all that was hidden
in the dark.

I want to move forward, but
I can’t get past this heavy door of
Acceptance,
I keep turning the other way,
for I did not consent to all this
Suffering.

I know there is so much light
on the other side of this door,
it is the precious gift of awakening
and surrendering control.

So I soften my heart
in devotion to this light -
it is stirring, it is kindling
something within me that knows,
the key dwells in my heart,
and it is called
Trust.