the sacrifice of soul 12/14/18

the sacrifice of soul,

I can see it in her eyes.

a depth that otherwise 

would be filled with light.

so many moments of concessions made.

costly are these monuments of burden,

yet still attempting at their lightness,

that comes from so deeply in her being.

not a story that can be told by words.

one has to embrace that being, 

to feel for her efforts made,

that cut into the heart of the matter,

that that look reveals beyond her story, 

that one knows for oneself

in one’s journey, for being on this planet

transfixed in the human dilemma. 

when one gives from so deeply within

to provide for another,

when it is so costly 

to one’s deepest sense of self

that it can never be regained

and wears as if a part is missing.

it is an essential luster, 

that now has the depth of the dim,

an empty space of rich self occupancy,

still, a glow that honors, 

even in its hollowness,

a worth beyond its exhaustive means.

sacred in its exposure to my embrace,

from to see another, in their caring,

that you have come to realize

in the deepest possible way for oneself.

I have to ask of me,

how to honor her,

beyond one’s sense of time and circumstance?

this sacrifice of soul . . .

such love unto itself, 

given so freely

in the honoring of another.

all of this humanly happens

until oneness abides

as a wisdom above and beyond the darkness.

the triumph of light is the soul

that made these sacrifices so real.

we all want to live that alive in our journey.

then again, making it sacred, 

for those who sacrificed for others.

for they have come to know of worth

beyond the human predicament

and for them to lead us 

into a grander sense of scale of being.

where oneness comes into our conscious means

and all our eyes are filled with that depth of clarity.

no more darkness pervading.

where all the light-streams of being, 

are as one.

beyond the circumstance of these lifetimes in passing

and individual toils of soul existence.

where within our diversity and circumstances

we realize ourselves evolving 

into the soul of collective-oneness . . .