uncloser

These are not my beautiful words, but the beauty that Life brought this morning. A foundpoem from today's reading in The Sufi Book of Life (Neil Douglas-Klotz).

sometimes fear induced
hurt in the past
causes part of us to close
a clenched fist
experienced "ourselves" "failing"
illnesses or intoxications
very dense boundaries
emotional-somatic scar tissue

every being
already contained
heart of the One Being
lift the veil

expand your boundaries again
be as porous as you need to be
for this moment of your life

this does not mean eliminating
we need enclosure and container
only the One expands and contracts you
no other source of need
or bounty

Uncloser
open from the inside
reverse the direction
of contraction and incubation
the same radiating, creating energy
gradually expands from a center
in all directions
unfold into a larger circle
rhythm of your heart returns
to that found
in the heart of the holy
ONE