Leaping into the Void

Poetry — Wednesday: Unfreezing the body armor

i speak to you from all the times before, hoping that you will remember. in the wee silence of the void there is only the breath; my breath, our breath, breathing scared, at first.

i have no name for this, as i come face to face with the blankness of void. even that does not describe this nothingness that comes as relief. will you enter with me?

breath breathes me deeply.

i dive headlong, i fall, trusting in nothing, save love, like falling-in-love, deeply into it with full embrace.

i sing into the place of void

where springs the shadow, my shadow and yours. i ask you now, do you see horror, terror or dread? do you run from this, as you must without a protector’s arms, yours or mine, holding you with a trust in love?

are you so hurt that trust is so light that it skips across the lake, a skimming stone that never plunges into the depths? i am the swirling current that will embrace you if you let me. i am the darkness that is your friend if you whisper softly to me. will you do that with me? don’t let me go there without

your lightness and your shadow too. i have been witness to this place in you. i stand with you on the edge of your darkness and mine.

i love you as we take each others’ hands and leap out into void, trusting in nothing but love’s embrace, flying in the face of nothingness, of fear and horror and a thousand deaths.

beyond the shadow there is nothing save for love.

will you go there for your self? will you go there with me?

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