I have woken from the sleep of ages
and I am not sure
if I am really seeing, or dreaming,
or simply astonished
walking towards sunrise
to have stumbled into the garden
where the stone was rolled
from the tomb of longing.
Emerging from darkness, from alienation, from confusion, from self-abandonment, we feel the tentative nature of renewed hope, a blinking kind of eye-opening towards a new possibility, of a heart opening towards inspiration, of a heart that reflexively leaps inside, in recognition of a turning homeward again – perhaps in a way never before felt.
When the hard dense stone of ego begins to roll away, what we once experienced as a tomb – now becomes a womb. Now, somehow, the light of love can be felt, be newly experienced, and taken into our inner darkness. Something essential and not quite name-able starts taking place inside. We can bear again the essential embodiment of our own truest and deepest longing. Our hero’s journey continues forth, as alive and new, and as uncertain as ever.
~Michael Mervosh
(Part 2 of a 4 part reflection of David Whyte’s poem- Spring Awakening)
Hello my Hero’s Journey Allies,
I say YES to Spring once again awakening all around and within me! My cells igniting with it’s blossoming and the call so clear, my response so effortless, I feel it’s deep longing and aliveness. Thank you Michael for your reflections on “Easter Morning in Wales”. It is my first reading of this beautiful poem and the words sing a familiar song in me.
I am feeling a new and deep awakening from the “sleep of ages” and a rush of urgency to wake up. And, I am not sure if I am really awake or dreaming this newness I have stumbled upon. This ease of joy, this lightness of being, this natural order; focused and clear, fresh and peaceful, fragrant and new. Springtime is within me!
My emergence from a dark, unsettled, physically imbalanced period into this new season has my interior garden excited with delight. Just before Easter, I heard a strong inner call for deep cleansing and I rested my digestive system with a 10 day cleanse. Without any thought until the moment, it evolved into a brand new way of eating. I am one month into a raw living foods way of nourishing my body and my solid inner balance has returned along with a new sensory connection with my food and the preciously alive green world all around me. It’s a way I’ve never felt before and a natural way of being for me. I feel deeper joy and lightness, refreshed and energized. I’ve let go of an unknown heaviness (my tomb) and am reclaiming “something essential and not quite name-able” my truest and deepest longing of my aliveness.
My hero’s journey continues forth alive and new and as uncertain as ever!
Welcome new life, welcome Spring!
Love to you all!
Sheri Fisher