Softly I felt
The intensity of light
Moving through me
Awakening my senses
Illuminating the view
Of everything around me
As if a dark cloud had
Dissipated into the atmosphere
-Carmen H Gray
Touched by An Angel
by Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Monarca Rising 