On this Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, the poetry prompt is to write about darkness.
Ritual for Inhabiting the Darkness
I.
Stand in the doorway.
Let the light stream in over your shoulders.
See your shadow.
Breathe into the stillness that awaits you..
II.
Leave the the lighted rooms behind you.
Walk forward onto the trail
which your own shadow has laid out before you,
until you have left the light so far behind you
that it is only a memory of light.
III.
Listen to the breathing of the darkness.
Become a seed in the waiting soil of the dark.
Feel how the darkness holds the pulsing life within you.
IV.
Wait.
V.
Crack open.
Expand into the darkness.
Send your roots down.
Send your twining tendrils upward.
Grow.
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