I’ve been listening this week to David Whyte reading a number of his poems, poems accompanied by a meditative and haunting musical score composed by celebrated film score composer Jeff Rona.
One particular moment of serendipity was Whyte’s poem Sweet Darkness, heard against the backdrop of Joyce Rupp’s reflections on darkness (can be found in this recent post, and this one).
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
~ David Whyte ~
From Whyte’s collection: House of Belonging.
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