Don't Worry

The world is filled with grief. Turn on the radio, flip the channels on the television, talk to people. Everywhere I turn darkness spills out of the universe and pours over me.

Once as a very young person I sought out the drama in life, mistaking it for passion and excitement. I was so young and naive. I had no idea that drama would find its own path to me and some of it was exceedingly unpleasant. But passion and excitement also found their way into my life and I discovered they could run on both sides of the Way too.

I have known passion so great I thought I would die from the intensity of it and I have known excitement so terrifying that I never want to know it again, but these are the extremes and I prefer to live my life closer to the center point now. Here, in the sweetness of the Silence, is that umbilical cord connecting me to you, to each of you. Here we are one as surely as the breath I take into my lungs has been breathed by a world before me.

I want to savor me, to savor you, to allow the fragrance of you to mingle with mine in this great bouquet we call life. The darkness will find us, don't worry. It is inescapable, but it is not insurmountable. As long as I can find my way back to the centerpoint, I know there will be comfort and hope, peace and joy. The rest falls back into the abyss it comes from.

I feel it fall upon me and with the whisper of my breath blow it gently away, allowing space for the light to lead me to you.

Breathe with me. Let us make this centerpoint a haven for all.