surrender

If you love deeply,
Your heart
Has already
Been shattered
Into a thousand pieces.

Pick up the pieces
Place them
Into the hands
Of your
Most liberated Self.

It will not
Put the pieces
Back together.
No. No.

It will purify them
And send them
Out into
The world
To love a thousand souls.

P.S. if you ever want to put
The pieces back together again.
Don’t.
But if you really, really want to try,
I may know where one piece is.
It’s doing wonders over here 😉

Walk onto the ocean’s chest
With your ears.
Step slowly, deeply.

Relax your other senses
Inside the pause
Between the rise and fall
Of its heartbeat.

Then let go.

Drop your heart
In the roaring invitation
To listen,
To see,
To feel,
The music of newness
In every wet.

Caught between

Deciding and moving,

My small self

Hangs on to

The phantom safety

Of a fragile solidity.

Letting go,

It falls into

The firm emptiness

Of Life’s momentum.