In Choosing Seclusion

Choice is a cause Choosing brings effects. Effects bring potential closure Into perceived final ending. Heart thoughts mitigate all Rummaging memories In choosing seclusion… Quiet time, all looking for a fuller Self. Please, no grief in this Just joy, and understood tenderness. ___*___ Still, in understanding… Tears of sadness and pain Joy, and tenderness All are Nature’s way Of embracing Its Self With me as the welcome party. All the while Sun’s a’shining… “In which ‘isness’, I wonder?” ___*___ For in this, one sees... This me in I, again… expanding… Towards enclosing effects Again within the whole of I… Though larger. Hugging into a state of fully, balanced love Or not… Tears coming home to Earth-side For reflection… As was always intended Tears, acknowledged, heralded as such… worthy. Joy or sorrow The same… harsh water. ___*___ Turned to softer waters Warming through the inviting, settled fires of skin Into, around, absorbed into the more Outside airs and spirits… Streaming, steaming lightly Drawn forth Ah, to enter Earth’s softly sailing, misty airs For more select flying in this world Meeting more away-from-home-bound parts. ___*___ Home-bound parts… Looking for their own spirit-partners. Oh see, they too are wily, absorbing Their needed life stream… As spirit-to-spirit merges into higher natures Providing their own heavenly comforts. Truly all learning in this… The Whole acknowledging… The community knowing this eternal truth… One is never truly alone. ___*___ Anywhere in the Cosmos finds this truth Even into the Beyond Understanding. Worth countless repeats… ‘One is never truly alone.’ I settle in, at peace knowing this… Even drawing tears, welcome or not Now understood… as my own truth… One, truly alone… That, I find smiling, is… an impossibility.