In the Shadow of the Sacred

("Winter's Edge", 2018, original encaustic) In The Shadow of the Sacred This game Of life Played With full abandon With all our doubts And confusions Hopes and fears As we soldier on Suffer and grow Gradually or suddenly Expanding the crack In the cosmic egg The tear in the womb Of all our births The crack of the broken heart Life inevitable bestows The tear we bleed from... The crack by which the light Gets in, and out. And so it goes, this cycle Of birth and death And everything in between Giving and taking As best we can Learning what it is We have only forgotten Learning who we really are Beyond the veils of this life The conditioned habits Within the story Of all our relations. Coming home Always going home Whether we know it or not Whether we even care or not Everyone, brothers and sisters On this same journey Each in our own way Coming home Stumbling on our knees Running at full speed Soaring with open wings To a place The sacred space We have never really left. (11/16/23)