XVIII: The Moon

Sit with it.
Let raw emotions wash over you
like blue moonlight.
Each sensation will expose you
more and more
like a waxing lunar orb—
your vulnerability growing wider
day by day, night by night,
until you shine with wholeness.

But that’s too much to bear for long.
Soon you’ll vanish back
into your own safe darkness.
Wishing not to be seen.
Wanting to hide for a time
behind a curtain of familiar feelings
you’ll blanket around yourself
for security and space.
Waiting to resurface from the depths
of your own psyche.

Allow that to be what it is.
The phases are in your nature too.
It’s in your nature to feel it all.

Make peace with that,
and perhaps you’ll feel the wonder
of being alive.