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 night
where the dark has eyes
to
recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will make a home for you
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
This 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, Sweet Darkness,
The House of Belonging, 1998
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