Breathe Out Everything

 

Breathe out everything

you are against.

Surrender the argument.

For just an instant

be nothing

in the gentle palm

of desolation

between breaths.

Inhalation, exhalation,

wings of unknowing

that brush up your spine,

ringing each vertebra

like a bell-full of night.

If your heart is broken,

it must have opened

during the darkest hour

before dawn

when you didn’t even know
you were praying.

A Friend must have

touched you there

while you were sleeping.

Enter the wound, the healing
pain, the flower-surge
of yearning in your sternum.
Call it a door, this sacred
black hole between heartbeats

where stars spin from your stillness.
A special kind of darkness

that illuminates the sun,

wonder free from thought.

And it only takes a moment

to turn each cell

in your body to a chalice

of golden fire.

 

 

Flower photo by Kristy Thompson

 

 


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