Luminous driftings
Satin and gold
Sweet taste the waters
For wellness of Soul
Ripening blossoms
For fullness to form
Futures engorging
Autumnal rich sun.
Glancing romances
Daydream to be hold
Gyrational dancing
Through young blood and old
Breezing belief
With lashes closed tight
She’s pregnant
And verdant
And flutters for flight.
Eight-thirty-two am
Orange candles and I
Wait within
My client’s absence.
Such expressed need last week
Have passed upon
More rivers of life experience
Hopefully.
I hold him, his essence
In my heart.
May he be well
May he be safe
May he be protected
May he be at peace.
Nine-oh-four am
Distant
Insistent city sirens
Crash into my absent clients time
and
The driver
The paramedic
The one in crisis
Their family and friends
Enter our session.
So many opportunities
To breathe in Amaan
To breathe out Light.
Nine-thirty am
My absent client
Parts from my heart
Payment due
My candle still burning
This city still turning
and
I sit still and wait.
Amaan: A call for refuge and peacefulness within Ultimate Love
‘Oh,
who gives me the wings like the dove when I would fly away and be at rest?’ (Meister Eckhart, Discourse on Eternal Birth)
‘I shall lead my friend into the wilderness and shall speak to her heart. I will return her vineyards and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope.’ (Hosea 2 14 & 15)
and so:
Breathe deep I do, this dove grey breeze
ingest the wail and warp and weave
of city sirens and seagull cries
and hurt filled sweat in salt sore eyes.
And pray I do, that You may quell this thirsting woe
this cling to things I think I know
this bursting urge that grips the reins
that tourniquets Your blood in veins
fat furred and hard from my control
of withering heart, and yet and yet
this distanced soul cannot forget
to Breathe out and inwardly once again
trust Love to light the twisted turns through
joy and rage and hope and pain.
‘When we set our intention on love and humility, then, by the power of mercy and grace, we are cleansed and made whole.’ (Julian of Norwich, Showings, chapter 40)
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