a poem by Stephen Levine - Millennium blessing

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A Poem we might enjoy.

 

Alan

 

 

 

Millennium Blessing

 

By Stephen Levine

(1937 - )

 

There is a grace approaching

that we shun as much as death,

it is the completion of our birth.

 

It does not come in time,

          but in timelessness

when the mind sinks into the heart

and we remember.

 

It is an insistent grace that draws us

to the edge and beckons us to surrender

safe territory and enter our enormity.

 

We know we must pass

          beyond knowing

and fear the shedding.

 

But we are pulled upward

          none-the-less

through forgotten ghosts

          and unexpected angels,

luminous.

 

And there is nothing left to say

but we are That.

 

And that is what we sing about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- from Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace, by Stephen Levine