It wasn’t easy at all.

And you thought it was easy for me
to close my heart towards you.
You thought it was easy for me
to close my eyes towards dream.
You thought it was easy for me
to close my mind to your smile.
You thought it was so easy for me
to leave the place I called home.
Now my heart never opens up,
My nights pass in painful nightmare
being nearly sleepless.
Now I even stopped smiling, masking my tears in
monster like laughter, ungraceful, insincere.
Now I live in a fragile shell of aloneness,
having nowhere to return to.
I travelled a long way from that crossroad I left you,
Yet I didn’t find what I was looking for.
Did you, did you finally find peace?
Did you finally find it possible to believe in love?
Did you finally find a place you can return to?

Excerpt from The Prophet

“who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret”

“It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands”

“Sons of my ancient mother, you riders of the tides, How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream”

“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.”

“Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping”

“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give”