Monday, April 02, 2012
"Full Face," (poem by Dorothy)
Full Face
“Every happiness is the child of a separation
it did not think it could survive.”
Rilke
Accept it,
even when it turns to you
full face.
Do not turn away,
when it invites you
to enter into unknown embraces,
shadow realms,
breathes its breath
like a coy animal
on your unsuspecting nape.
What is entering
is what has always been,
a reality beyond
your own small
imagining,
something greater,
more profound
than your
familiar, bounded dwelling place.
Dorothy Walters
(from "The Ley Lines of the Soul")
