My first ever post.. the title of my blog comes from the dark time I went into isolation and this poem is the outgrowth of witnessing my older sister’s destruction… its a very long poem… I can only apologise for that but it was my first attempt to try to articulate part of my Dark Night of the Soul Journey.
I sat with you
I held your hand
I kept the all night vigil
While you unleashed an ocean of tears
A flood that almost drowned you
Sucked deep by the tidal pull
Of that underground swell
You held firmly to this place
While all the fears and demons threatened
To unfurl you from this mortal coil
Pulling from every direction
At times they were not even conscious
But the pain was deep
It was the body that wept
Expelling slowly the silted up debris
Of ages
The pain of many generations
Over many years
You were held deep in the silent embrace
Of this house by the sea
Cast adrift
This house was the boat within which you undertook
The perilous night sea journey
Into the unfathomable depths
Of the collective unconscious
Somewhere from deep inside your belly
I hear a child is crying
Longing for its pain and…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 