Look Into My Tears

 

"Seek the remedy inside the pain, because the rose came
from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone." ~Rumi

Look into my tears.

Just as the proton carries a hidden charge

of dark energy,

so every heart encircles a secret night.

We don't know its name,

but it's the same ache in each of us,

thought we hide it under a smile

because we are afraid it might be ours alone.

We never imagine that the face

who smiles back at us

also carries the uncreated matter 

of the shadow.

We find that out much later, 

when we gaze into each other’s tears,

when we embrace the night 

within each other and it blossoms 

into a luminous rose,

not because we've been forgiven,

but because a radiant grace

is the nature of the hour before dawn,

and the true smile rises

from a heart that stops trying

not to grieve.

Here is a deeper secret, friend,

one that has no shadow at all.

I smile from your heart.

You smile from mine.