DARKNESS


…Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes 
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure 
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb 
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon 
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds 
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet 
confinement of your aloneness 
to learn 

anything or anyone 
that does not bring you alive 

is too small for you.

-- David Whyte