The Deep and Beautiful Darkness

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, January 7,  2001

The darkness is deep and beautiful,
truly holy, nothing to fear.
It is the source of all rest and peace,
eternal sleep, ravishing insights,
hidden reasons, unknowable partners.

To take us away from the glare and tumult,
if only for a little while,
would be reason enough for it to exist:
but it means so much more than this as well!

The darkness is our bridge
deep inside ourselves;
it is where we clamber back
to the eternal womb from where we came,
which gives us all our reasons.

Soon enough, the sun will smile (or scowl)
its way into our lives again,
and depending on the circumstances
we will scowl or smile back.
There will be the din of business,
visiting neighbors, the cry of children,
laughter and shouts of anger and pain:
there will be music so beautiful our ears will hurt.

But the eternal night, the darkness,
will abide forever,
always there as refuge and escape,
source of wisdom, haven of hope,
ours for the taking, to enter into deeply as we may,
ours for the taking, to come to know ourselves again at last.

jbs
9/10/00 - 1/7/01

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