How would it be
If we could enter our innocent heart
And feel the power
Of deep true feelings
Blossoming forth
Like flowers
And set them free
Without care or concern
For the opinions and responses of others
Freed from old imprints of
Shame
Disapproval
Disregard
How sweet that would be
I remember
That funeral
When old unfelt grief poured forth
And I cried like a child
The look of contempt
You gave
I was reaching out with the arms of love
To his grieving grandchildren
Who returned my embrace
And we melted in
They didn’t stiffen and pull away
And I remember too
The tender hugs
Of the other dancers
As we fell spent to the floor
After we danced the element water
On the evening of that painful day
When you came to me in the garden
By the Chalice Well
And told me that you
Who I had loved for eleven years
Now loved another
The child in me cried
For there were layers and layers of loss
But the child in me also danced
With that great abandon
That is the soul’s true release
Revealing how sweet it would feel
To enter my innocent heart
To look upon all of this suffering
With the eyes of a child
Eyes of love
Eyes of hope
Eyes of forgiveness
Holding nothing back
No pretending
To feel this
To allow this expression
To live deeply centred
In a child’s pure soul
Would be surely be for me
The sweetest
Of sweet surrenders
Beautiful poem. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Reblogged this on Emerging From The Dark Night and commented:
A poem I wrote a while back. How would it be to just surrender to our feelings and let them flow, not holding on to any grievance like children can do?
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Deb,
THIS is what I’m talking about. Such a beautiful piece as you have written here, it is an inspiration. And yes, to that pure soul of a child, their perspective is something we all need more of.
Beautifully written. 🙂
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Aww thanks I wrote it a while ago..It cant do us any harm to return to the innocent heart of a child…much love and peace blessings to you…
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Well it is beautiful, and so true. You’re right, because I believe the harm comes in believing we are too ‘advanced’ or ‘mature’ for such a perspective, when nothing could be further from the truth.
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Exactly!!!
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This is so beautiful. Just so wonderful.
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Bless you I wrote this back in 2015…just been re visiting some earlier posts.
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We would be honoring ourselves in sweet surrender. Beautiful Deborah.
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This,was an old one Michelle I’ve got some gems back in archives..Thanks darling ♥️
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Love it 😊
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