The Dismemberment Journals: Part II

An offering to this night.....

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.

Time to go into the dark where the world 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 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