Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision is gone
no part of the world
can find you.
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be
your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made
to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness
and the sweet confinement
of your aloneness to learn . . .
Anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
_ David Whyte
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