Friday, May 15, 2015

Morning Light

"Early Bright"     Watercolor
 Copyright Carol Marander Fine Art 2015.  All Rights Reserved.

Where the Light Enters You

By Omid Safi

broken window
Sunlight
Light shines through

It was sunset
What colors

I am this window
You,
the light

We are the brokenness
Illuminated.

The beauty
is all of us

This window,
the brokenness,
and the light
is all us.

We all broken
Frac tured
shat tered

Somewhere in us
there is
a healing

The Nur comes
from beyond

God is the Light.

The One
who gave me the wounds
gives the healing

We are
Wounded healers
Illuminated brokenness
Poets and sages tell us:
        The Wound is where the Light enters you.
I look at my own heart
and see scars
   scars piled on scars

So many deaths
and yet,
life--
Stubborn
    clings to me.
Some see the injury,
the pain
the hurt.

I caress the scar
gently.
This is where the healing
and the light
    entered me.

The scars tell me
I lived through it all
and grew.
I survived.
Even thrived.

The wound
the injury
and the healing
are now all a part of me.    
I pause now
at all the broken windows

O wonder!
the broken window
of my heart
this scattered light
How beautiful each of us
the broken
the unbroken
the healing
the light
The survival.

 


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