REVELATION MUST BE TERRIBLE Revelation must be terrible with no time left to say goodbye. Imagine that moment staring at the still waters with only the brief tremor of your body to say you are leaving everything and everyone you know behind. Being far from home is hard, but you know, at least we are all exiled together. When you open your eyes to the world you are on your own for the first time. No one is even interested in saving you now and the world steps in to test the calm fluidity of your body from moment to moment as if it believed you could join its vibrant dance of fire and calmness and final stillness. As if you were meant to be exactly where you are, as if like the dark branch of a desert river you could flow on without a speck of guilt and everything everywhere would still be just as it should be. As if your place in the world mattered and the world could neither speak nor hear the fullness of its own bitter and beautiful cry without the deep well of your body resonating in the echo. Knowing that it takes only that one, terrible word to make the circle complete, revelation must be terrible knowing you can never hide your voice again. -from Fire in the Earth
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I feel especially with this poem that you are speaking directly to me at this moment of my life. A deep gratitude for these words.
I am waking to the knowledge that the moment of revelation may unfold over a long period of time. And often think of time as a construct from the changes that unfold around us. I love this poem so much for its terror and its joy!