Here we are, entering into the longest nights of the year… Though we have created our world so that we might have light all the time, the darkness still finds its way into our psyche, into our soul. What a gift it is to wrestle with ourselves, though it doesn’t always feel like a gift. There are two poems that radically shifted my own perception of darkness: Rumi’s “Night Goes Back” and Rilke’s “You Darkness.” In both of the poems, the poets declare to the night and the dark, “I love you.” I remember at first being shocked by this, but perhaps that shock is part of what helped to cut a door into darkness that I, too, could eventually walk through. Into the Dark Again by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Dark and getting darker— nothing to do but to make of the body a home for darkness, to open every secret drawer where we hide our private darknesses. Who knows what might happen then? How immeasurable we are. It is only terrifying until it becomes ...
Women's Spiritual Poetry