Keeping The Smoke Hole Open

The Awakening


If you want to know
who you are,
if you want to know
the truth of your friends,
the caring of your neighbors
or that of the stranger down the street,

if you want to know ,
then you will have to relinquish everything.

You will know
when you have lost your freedom,
your dependence on the old way of life,
the plentitude of food.
when nothing is what it once was.

Then you will know.

You will be stripped bare,
down to the bones
of your soul,
in the aloneness of your Self.

In this nakedness
you will discover the pearl of your essence,
recognize the power of love,
the light of love in the eyes of others,
the suffering of those who struggle
in the darkness of their souls.

And there will come a stillness
in which there is born an awakening,
a slow, shivering awakening
which calls us
calls us forward
to step into the new day unfolding,
to step into the future of our making.


© Renata Amedea Santerre

Renata- Simply beautiful!