[This wonderful poem was kindly shared with us by Maithri Goonetilleke. a medical doctor from Melbourne, Australia. Maithri is also co-founder/director of Possible Dreams International, Inc - a non profit organisation designed to bring tangible hope into the lives of those facing the challenges of extreme poverty, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and endemic disease. Currently the main focus of their work are the gracious people of Swaziland. Find out more ...]
Come to me,
When the river
of Daylight
is at its ebb,
And I will show you
How soft
Darkness
can be.
Here
in this
Deep forest
Where yearning shadows
Fall
into the
open arms
of the suppliant earth,
Where the yellow eyed
Jaguar
Stalks the wind
with velvet step,
Where
wildness is
sanctified,
And humanness
is holy,
I offer you this wounded
hand,
Come with me
And I will show
you the
fire
that burns
without smoke
The branches
where the little spider
weaves love
from out the womb
of midnight,
The way
the naked stream dances
As she dreams of
the cool fingers
of the ocean
Kiss my skin
And I
will breathe you
in
to the soul
of the music
I hear
I will search you
till i find the places
where you are
aching
Lie down
with you
by the shoulders
of the fire,
exchanging
pleasure
for brokenness,
While the drum
beats
on
Into
endlessness
[This wonderful poem was kindly shared with us by Maithri Goonetilleke. a medical doctor from Melbourne, Australia. Maithri is also co-founder/director of Possible Dreams International, Inc - a non profit organisation designed to bring tangible hope into the lives of those facing the challenges of extreme poverty, malnutrition, HIV/AIDS and endemic disease. Currently the main focus of their work are the gracious people of Swaziland. Find out more ...]
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