Let Go

Let go:

it's with things let go - completely of their own accord, and at some point they simply no longer call to our attention. This is where we truly meet, our empathetic connection, where what's deeply felt belongs to us all. What's between us now are only thoughts, beliefs that keep us from the recognition of what we share. Yet every deep hurt belongs to us together a common ache and brokenness, a pain shared by right of our true kinship. 

words can't find this empathetic place, they only hint of it's existence, urging us to the edge of personal sorrow, our meeting point of loss. Here, there comes a tentative letting go - a first step towards a spaciousness that holds us through a shared embrace, a beckoning of our belonging. At this edge we lose faith in everything but our own sorrow, too enormous for one to hold alone. It's now, here, that we entirely let go, or more truly seen, the ownership of all our pain gives way completely. 

and here, we meet. 

yes, we still and always hurt, empathy only cures our aloneness. 

but it's a larger world now, we hold each others hurt between us, shared through it's belonging. Your sorrow is mine, my ache is yours as well. Ours is the only sure healing. What's really let go of is the illusion that we suffer alone, and deeper still it's seen that empathy is our one existence, the reality of all that's shared between us. 

with things let go...

there is only our together. 

~

Peace, Eric