You held me

You held me when I was suffering

You heard my pain

And you allowed it a place and expression

You did not say

Go away

And shut the door

As so many others did

Thank you

How many times can I say it?

Now I know I can trust you

The one they say

Will never betray me

I find that you are not a visible force

But a deeply invisible one

You are infinite

You are presence

And you know nothing of rejection

Or boundaries

You are open and expansive

Full of surrender

Some call you father

But I know you as mother

I know you as womb

And container

I know the love of a mother’s body that carried me

As a cell within her cells

I feel that love

Now all resistance is gone

And in this moment of deep recognition

I open to your healing

And in this moment

When

You hold me and behold me

I know we are

So deeply loved

So deeply known