When your eyes are tiredthe world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the nigh
At has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that
anything or anyone that does not bring you alive you have made too small for you.
The House of Belonging
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love
The dark will be your womb tonight.
The night will give you a horizon further than you can see.
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that
anything or anyone that does not bring you alive you have made too small for you.
The House of Belonging
by David Whyte
