My earnest quest

 

To see, within the chasm,
The dark gleam of depth, of strength,
fine-grained solidity of courage
and compassion

To feel, beneath the raging,
the ocean floor stillness
where everything returns
to sacred rest

The heart, the core, the center  -
what shelters me, what sends me,
what receives me to its own
in every journey,
the place where I can enter
in my very smallest state,
the place where I can stay,
expand, and grow.

©Wendy Mulhern
November 25, 2020