Maybe we run
To find a way to cope with
Scary unbearable feeling
To find a way to keep living
Even as the flood of all we had no power over
Threatens to overtake
And dissolve us
Maybe it so hard for us to sit still
Because we are not at all familiar
With how it may be
To fully enter our hearts
To see how we got so set apart’
From human embraces, connection and protection
This morning my spiritual child
Told me of all she longed to give
When she first entered this world
As a being of light
She told me of the pain of seeing how human beings
So often became
Unavailable and splintered
After that vision and the tears that flooded my heart
I finally saw how far apart from love
I was sent
And then it was for the milllionth time
Hard to breathe
Almost as if the energy of loving
Wanted to enter my heart and body
But became too much for one single being
To contain
And then I thought of the Lion’s gate
And of how this fire might destroy so much
Was it why you sent me away
Deeper and deeper into loneliness
Fracture, isolation and shame?
Some days these visions just become to painful
To contain
Glimpsing the division between what is possible
And what we create
From deep within human limitations
Maybe that is why so often
All we humans can seem to do
Is run