Learning the Cost – Refusing to Pay

Going back to gaze-less nights but not you; you go back to a world lapping you up in licks.

I add a fried egg to leftover root vegetables. A pinch of shredded cheese. A side of chocolate. All of this is inadequate in love's presence. Please tell me know this.

Learning the cost.
Refusing to pay.

Sooted forearms, controlling the burn.

The Western mind formed in the Greek cosmos tells it one way, but what about the Near Eastern sophia perennis? What if there is an entirely “other” frame that allows kenosis and eros to transform in stages?

We've embraced what deceives us. Remember: not one, not two, but both one and two.

Image as the primordial template, where spirits become bodies and bodies become spiritualized.

Beloved, I have channeled the grandmothers. They sent messages which I have delivered. I am not the woman I was. Come find me and be at peace.

And do not forget to seek the integrative wisdom which flows in contrasts to opposites; to yes and no; to acceptance and rejection; to here and not here; to lover and loved.

Like Mary Magdalene, strip thyself of clothing and leave them folded neatly on the bank. Leave your accuser behind.