To see, within the chasm,
the dark gleam of depth, of strength,
fine-grained solidity of courage
and compassion
To feel, beneath the raging,
the ocean floor stillness
where everything returns
to sacred rest
The heart, the core, the center –
what shelters me, what sends me,
what receives me to its own
in every journey,
the place where I can enter
in my very smallest state,
the place where I can stay,
expand, and grow.
©Wendy Mulhern
November 25, 2020