Snow Day
I listen to the soft crush of snow under my boots.
The snow muffled quiet brings a much-needed peace to the frantic city pace.
Enforced rest by steep, frozen roads is a hidden reprieve to many.
Why does it take an act of nature to teach us to be still?
Why do we shun silence and rest?
Are we afraid if we stop, our world will fall apart?
Are we afraid if we stop, our long ignored feelings and thoughts will rise in rebellion once we have slackened control of them?
It is like long ago we stepped onto a merry-go-round in the park.
At first it slowly turned, but with each revolution it gained speed until now it is moving so fast we can’t get off.
What is this hidden hand, pushing us at this frantic, out of control, speed?
The snow day reminds us:
We can get off the merry-go-round,
And our world won’t fall apart.
Rest will help our minds and bodies work better.
Letting go of control is good for us. We really can’t control everything anyways.
Maybe our suppressed emotions have something to say to us, need our attention.
Maybe we won’t die if we listen to them and deal with them.
There is a good chance we will find healing.
© 2010 Julie Clark
The Great Exchange
You want this?
In your light I see
what I thought was good
To be full of holes
Like a worn out cloth
Hanging from the line.
You want this?
And what is this you offer in exchange?
A radiant purity that I cannot achieve.
A gift you say?
But I cannot release my filthy rags
Unless I move from my smug self-centeredness
To the center of that red-hot core
Called love.
How is this possible?
I will die at that core.
Yes, and live again,
Twice born.
Clothed in that radiant purity
You attained for me.
© 2007 Julie Clark
Fear
Fear has stocked me from childhood.
Like a restless tiger, it waits to pounce on its tired prey.
I’m done with it.
Realizing any fear leads back to the fear of death.
What’s so bad about dying?
It’s the only way out of here at present.
Out of here and into there.
Not that I want to rush things.
But in my time I to will follow my ancestors and every other man, woman and child before me.
I am facing that tiger and saying, my life is in stronger hands than yours.
I believe
I am beloved
And that Love that loves me is stronger than death.
© 2010 Julie Clark
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