Sorrow

Sorrow

I long to be wrapped

With comfort

When the world feels

Hard

Instead I allow sorrow

To blanket my

Wayward

Heart

I see the truth

Within it

Honesty

Abounds

My heart

Sensitivity

Clear ringing

Making sound

So

I let the sorrow

Take me

Guides me

Left and right

Up and down

All around

Until I reach

The light

I do not try

To push it

Far away

To flee

Instead I

Call it in

Welcome

It to me

Sorrow brings

Me close

To my

Darkest parts

To help me

Understand

The Caverns

Of my heart

Those parts

That burn for quiet

Coveting

My claim

Sensitively feel

Peoples words

Go up

In flame

Sorrow is

My tool

Slowly chipping

Towards the Sun

Inching my way

Through

Slow to walk

And then to run

Towards the parts

That brighten

The bleak

And dismal day

Knowing that

My truth

Will help me

Win my way

Sorrow

Is not bad

To feel

Within our shell

Reminds us

On the other side

Joy resides

As well

When the joy

Jumps forth

The sweeter

It is still

Because the

Sorrow extracted

That dazzling

Little quill

So when you feel

The dark

Remember

Quick with me

That

Sorrow is a part

like

Water is to sea

We are all the things

Dark

Bright

And goodness too

You are perfect

As you are

It’s all inside

Of you

Feel those feelings

Out

All of them and

More

Peek behind

The darkest parts

Stand firm

Upon the floor

Hopefully

You’ll find

That sorrow

In your soul

Give it love

And many hugs

Tell it

It is whole

Lull it with

Your voice

Shhhhh shhhhh

Till it starts to feel

Allowing it

To understand

It helps our hearts

To heal

Sorrow is a part

Of you

it boosts

Your human

Heart

Giving you

Compassion

For all peoples

Darkest

Parts

Island

island

The water rolled around it

Caressing every place

I used to want to hide

made me want to hate

Hate it for its presence

And for what it didn’t do

wanted it to disappear

Wanted to make it new

Because it wasn’t built

By tiny little bones

Wispy willowed limbs

Within a slimness owned

As the air it moves

In and out it goes

Rise and fall easily

I humble in my bones

It became an island

In my train of thought

What if it was stronger than

Made of soil and rock

I saw it as the earth

Strong within my hands

Soft and moving too

Like living breathing land

Changing all the time

Directed by the moon

So I sat and loved it

I mostly never do

As I floated Gracefully

In the water blue

A thought came rushing in my mind

The body knows the truth

My belly is an island

Water floating all around

My legs were two long bridges

Connected underground

My arms became the shore

Hands holding it together

Fingers splayed out sweetly

Taking in the weather

Catching in the scene

Breathing in the knowing

I caught this body tooth and nail

Was always scared of showing

All the love that it deserved

I wish that I had known

This body is an island

Full of love to grow

In and all around

Has been forever more

My body is an island

My belly is the shore

My arms and hands

Stronger still

Stretching

to the sky

My legs long

Big muscular

Help my feet

To fly

Finger tips

touch softly

Get course

From work and grit

Tongue to taste

Eyes to see

Tender lips

To kiss

This body is a tool

Gets me all around

Miracle the senses too

So lucky I’ve been crowned

For this precious body

Beaming with pure light

No longer be upset with

I now see the light

I’ll love her deep and wide

Learning everyday

My body is an island

I never want to hate

Easy To Love

Easy to Love

I hope that you know

You are

Easy to love

To me and the world

You are Whole

I see how lovely

The brightness

You shine

Most times when you

Can’t see at all

Come let me show

You how much you

Are worth

By all who know you

And more

Come take my hand

And I’ll show you the way

I’ll help

Open all of the

Doors

I See

The world

Calls out your sweet name

The natural voice

Tells the truth

The sky it whispered

Into the day

Just How much

It Adores

You

The lake and the river

Speak in your ear

Every time

You

Walk by

The ocean waves

Tend the same way

Devotion

Where water

Meets sky

All of these things

Need no reason

To love

They Are

Just as they are

No explanation

Its because

You are you

And you are

Beauty by far

So don’t you forget

The the world

Gets so mean

Cause you to question

And doubt

Humanity screams

And courses with pain

To easily snuff

Your

Flame out

In moments small

I can stop….to take

A  very

Deep look

At your heart

To remind it

It’s perfect…

And whole…

Much more than the sum

Of its parts

Then I’ll lean in

Just close enough

To deliver it words

From above

I’ll hold it so sweet

In gentlest of hands

And whisper

You are

Easy to Love

My Dearest

You are

Easy to Love

My Sweet

You are

Easy

To

Love

You

Are

Easy

To

Love

I just wrote this

Mostly for me….

Because long ago

There were

Times….

When I didn’t feel easy to love

And then I figured

Chances are….

There probably were times

When you don’t or didn’t either.

So I thought we could all use the reminder

That

It’s not the truth

So today I want us to know

We are pretty dang loveable

And most times

We are really really

Easy to love.

Some people might not know it

But we are

And

I can rest in that today.

Clarity

Clarity

Please give us clarity

To see what we can’t see

All the stories hidden

Buried deep beneath

Give the gift of sight

When we feel so blind

To the struggles faced

By those left behind

Tasting ever needed

Choking just to breathe

Societies unfaded

People live to seethe

Moments that are lost

In history ever more

May we not forget

The open swinging door

Of those that let you in

To take a look around

Never one direction

Lost yet hopeful found

As the world it thickens

The dark can see no light

Pleased to turn blind eyes

Blocking shadowed life

This I ask with heartfelt love

Deep into my soul

That calm and clarity

Come knocking on your door

Humanity it begs you

To hold it as a gift

Open eyes move all around

We can make it fit

So many divided

If we see each others eyes

We feel there is relation

Under this the greatest sky

And in this pure connection

May it bring for you

Grit and understanding

To seek out the truth

It’s unconscious people

That refuse to do the work

Never see the other side

Head stuck in the dirt

If you are one side only

I beg take a look around

Dally on the other side

Information will be found

Dig in deep to your beliefs

Ask questions many more

Why do the richest lie and take

Why do we go to war

For if you see both sides

Clarity will show

That we are all connected

The more we see

The more we grow

Wonder

Wonder

I sit tall

In my body

Holding wonder

Like a cup

Though nothing

In my hands

I can dream

It up

It’s the magic

All around

That sets

Our heart ablaze

It’s so

Gentle quiet

Setting in

Your gaze

Though it

May be small

Raging fire

It ignights

Reminding you

To bring

Your love

Straight Into the light

So be brave

My friend

And let your

Wonder shine

Let others

Know it does

Exist

Let it be a sign

For those

Lost and lonely

Hearts searching

For home

Souls want to

Believe

Tenderness

Their throne

Because we cannot

See it

Doesn’t mean

It isn’t there

We have to

Believe that it is

Hanging in

Thin air

The reason is

To wonder

To look

All around

And know too

The magic is you

From

Tip

Toes

To

Crown

Yup all of you.....

The whole thing.....

Trust

Trust

Trust is all directions

Pointing in a way

That will always bring you home

After traveling for days

It’s truest form

And it’s truest self

Wild and thrashing through

Something in the great unknown

Something that is new

Something you can’t taste

Or Touch

But something you can feel

A loving thing

that is such

Someone that is real

Guiding you to their heart

A sanctuary sound

The sacred place that you can sit

Always to be found

A gentle knock upon the door

Of your upended heart

A simple place in which to land

When you are in the dark

The hand to hold

When things get tough

A heart to sing your praise

Kind words that spill out

From the mouth

That help you find your way

The silence that is kinder still

When the words get hard

A hand woven tapestry

A shining work of art

A firm but gentle holding

A Sceptre in the soul

Pure eyes that hold the key

And the letting go

Surrender of the sweetest type

The trust of truest trues

Giving it to someone else

And they

In

Kind

To

You

by arley

In Gratitude for the knowing that trust can be learned again, found again, and earned again in the most gracious and generous of ways.

For guiding me gently and kindly back into a place I didn’t think existed......and for showing me that I had it in there all along.