{"id":759,"date":"2015-02-15T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:07:28","slug":"sweet-darkness-by-david-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/sweet-darkness-by-david-whyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Darkness by David Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"

When your eyes are tired
\nthe world is tired also.<\/h4>\n

When your vision has gone
\nno part of the world can find you.<\/h4>\n

Time to go into the dark
\nwhere the night has eyes
\nto recognize its own.<\/h4>\n

\"eyesailhandboat\"<\/h4>\n

There you can be sure
\nyou are not beyond love.<\/h4>\n

The dark will be your womb
\ntonight.<\/h4>\n

The night will give you a horizon
\nfurther than you can see.<\/h4>\n

You must learn one thing:
\nthe world was made to be free in.<\/h4>\n

Give up all the other worlds
\nexcept the one to which you belong.<\/h4>\n

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
\nconfinement of your aloneness
\nto learn<\/h4>\n

anything or anyone
\nthat does not bring you alive<\/h4>\n

is too small for you.<\/h4>\n
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