Passion

Drink first at your well.
Be still for once
and find out who you are.

Interrupt the lonely assertion
that insists on
a desperate reach for love.

Stop
and feel it all.

Be unafraid to descend
and know the deeper,
darker waters.

Welcome back
those abandoned sorrows.

Guide them with discipline
and tenderness
toward the molten core
where clarity is born
in dissolution.

Even as you find yourself
ground down
again and again
follow the thread
of undeniable truth
all the way through.

You already have the courage.
You’ve seen too much
by now
to return for long
to the dull drumbeat
the habitual comfort
of what you once
thought you knew.

Align with your strength,
the radiance
of your creative will,
the passion that can be counted on,
the choice for nothing less
than reality.

Throw it all on this fire
If you want to trust
your heart.

Discover that what you are
has enough space for this,
is being carved out by this,
blazed in the agony ecstasy
of this,
for love.



~~Luke Anderson

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