Rashani Réa: The Unbroken

The Unbroken

 

There is a brokenness

out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.

 
There is a hollow space 

too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness

 we are sanctioned into being.

 
There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart
as we break open to the place inside 

which is unbreakable and whole
while learning to sing.

 

— Rashani Réa

 

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I found this beautiful moving poem in 

Francis Weller's book The Wild Edge of Sorrow:

Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief.

Francis Weller writes: "The Unbroken" offers us a 

glimpse into what we may find nestled inside

our deepest sorrows." So wise and true.  

❤ Molly