The Truelove
There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially
if part of you never believed
you could deserve this
loved and beckoning hand
held out to you this way.
I am thinking of faith now
and the testaments of loneliness
and what we feel we are
worthy of in this world.
Years ago in the Hebrides
I remember an old man
who walked every morning
on the grey stones
to the shore of the baying seals,
who would press his hat
to his chest in the blustering
salt wind and say his prayer
to the turbulent Jesus
hidden in the water,
and I think of the story
of the storm and everyone
waking and seeing
the distant
yet familiar figure
far across the water
calling to them,
and how we are all
preparing for that
abrupt waking,
and that calling,
and that moment
we have to say yes,
except it will
not come so grandly,
so Biblically,
but more subtly
and intimately in the face
of the one you know
you have to love,
so that when we finally step out of the boat
toward them, we find
everything holds
us, and confirms
our courage, and if you wanted
to drown you could,
but you don’t
because finally
after all the struggle
and all the years,
you don’t want to any more,
you’ve simply had enough
of drowning
and you want to live and you
want to love and you will
walk across any territory
and any darkness,
however fluid and however
dangerous, to take the
one hand you know
belongs in yours.
David Whyte (House of Belonging)
Love to you all,
Jeane
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Beautiful photos…amazing indeed. Profound poem of the deep emotion of being human and more than just.
Interesting, in a post last night, I was pondering the reality of going back to another youth one day:) I stated it as I would love to snap my fingers and go back to the age of my profile picture (early 20’s and ripe with vigor) and take all the years again the same if need be….responses were varied, but I realized I love the light in me that is going to continue in another body perhaps..enough to hold it sacred in this body until we part ways and my spirit steps yet again into the next adventure. Bless these bodies that allow us the experience of living THIS life today, part of that life may be to roil with emotions and wish for another day. Amen. 🙂
I am grateful each day, when I walk through the house or out on this land, that I am available for the changing skies, the changing seasons, the mountains in storm or clear blue sky. I remember a time when my life didn’t have space for seeing as I do now. I hold in gratitude my camera that travels with me to capture these moments to share with you.
I love the passion with which David Whyte writes–his acknowledgement that life is not easy but that it is always, always worth giving ourselves over to it–even when we wish for another day. You and I have lived long enough to know that day will come and, with it, new emotions and a healing for whatever went before.