James Moore Poet Narrative

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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)

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