Blog #14, November 2021. A poem for the pandemic.
In the vastness of the heart
We meet once more
The veil of lifetimes lifted
The solitary walk through the dread darkness gone
The longing and the yearning
Dissolved
In the vastness of the heart
We discover peace
All seeking ceases
The eternal winter at our back
Splinters of sunlight falling on our delicate skin
This too gone
In the vastness of the heart
We are composed of shimmering light
The rough ploughed field of dreams
The shadow of our tears
The palace of our small despairs
At last illuminated
In the vastness of the heart
We are the naked breath of bliss
Night that wrapped us in the fog of her arms
The blind turns, the half joys
The wicked wheel of the deathless dawn
All gone
In the vastness of the heart
We meet once more
By angel’s fire, by tidal moon
By holy river, by sacred sea
By all the laws of love and incantation
We merge
One heart one soul
© The Vastness of The Heart. Terry McArthur. Blue Pearl Music 2021.
Great to be reminded, when the threads of global disease (not covid - r.wing extremism) threaten to draw us into conflagration, that there's an antidote.