Come Home

A Dharma poem about finding whatever you need to be happy right here...in yourself.

Come Home

Come home now my dear,
come home and rest.
Yes, yes sweet one,
I’ve seen your brave questing into the future,
your tireless forays into the past.
But hush now, you can stop your restless searching for love is right here.

Fall into its sweet heaviness,
like the honey drunk bee surrenders
under the weight of its sun dust of pollen.
Into the deep cup of the rose, let go.
Be buoyed in the flow of the warm wave salt home,
you never truly left.
Be still
be at peace
just rest now,
love is here.

- Ellen Tannen

There is a Brokenness

Here's my favorite Dharma poem again. It's just so beautiful and affecting.

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 Rea