Time to blossom

May all that is unforgiven in you

Be released

May your fears yield

Their deepest tranquilities

May all that is unlived in your

Blossom into a future

Graced with love

                             John O’Donohue

___________________________

There is so much

Inside this soul

That has never come alive

I was a little old man by the time I was 9

And since that time

I have sunk my roots in the

Sterile soil of “shoulds” and “oughts”

and “musts”

I have tried to be what other people

Thought I should be

I have hidden behind

Intellect

And words

Behind titles and success

and I have plodded through life

only partly alive

withering in the shadows

but there are times

when the sun shines

and my soul wants to blossom

when people come into my life

full of grace, and life and love

and

and if I yield

to Sacred call

and open my heart to

the gift God has given

then my soul may unfold

in love’s light

all that is unlived may live

my soul may blossom

and I will have a future

graced with love