Listen Carefully...

I have heard it all my life,
A voice calling a name I recognized as my own.

Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.

But always it says: Wake up my love.
You are walking asleep. There’s no safety in that!

Remember what you are and let this knowing
take you home to the Beloved with every breath.

Hold tenderly who you are and let a deeper knowing
color the shape of your humanness.

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here.
Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand.

The call from withinWhat you are looking for is right here. Image: Marina Khrapova

There is no waiting for something to happen,
no point in the future to get to.
All you have ever longed for is here in this moment, right now.

You are wearing yourself out with all this searching.
Come home and rest.

How much longer can you live like this?
Your hungry spirit is gaunt, your heart stumbles. All this trying.
Give it up!

Let yourself be one of the God-mad,
faithful only to the Beauty you are.

Let the Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close,
dancing even when fear urges you to sit this one out.

Remember – there is one word you are here to say with your whole being.
When it finds you, give your life to it. Don’t be tight-lipped and stingy.

Spend yourself completely on the saying.
Be one word in this great love poem we are writing together.

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kamir bouchareb st
1 year ago

gooooooooood

Neil
3 years ago

I needed to hear that !

Elle Tallent
3 years ago

Emotional This is EXACTLY how I have been feeling since my spiritual awakening, but didn’t know how to word it. Beautifully Expressed!

Helen Dutch
3 years ago

This touched and moved my troubled heart and mind, just at the right moment.
I do feel uplifted and shall breathe in this message and let it pervade my soul. Thank you.

Barbara Dyson
3 years ago

Beautiful.

Juan Manuel
3 years ago

Bellísimo!!!

zoli zoli
3 years ago

Thanks for the wonderful article. Thanks for sharing

Angie
3 years ago

Beautiful

Jim May
6 years ago

Very nice. It reminds me of Rumi

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