Saturday, April 30, 2022

Rashani Réa: The Unbroken

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 
 

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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