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 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 The House of Belonging
How full of trifles everything is!
It is only one's thoughts
that fill a room with something
more than furniture.
~ Wallace Stevens
Love/Life Poems
