Get Quiet.... a poem by Veronica Farmer

In the silence
the asking to hear
When first you do it
it is terrifying

We spend all day
avoiding 
the Quiet
within

What we truely are
What we truely want
Gets covered
with greasy coats of sensibility
and 
avoidance of rage

When you surrender
into the stillness
it can be overpowering
All the parts so carefully mothballed away
begging for reconciliation

It offers freedom
To see the worst
Then know
underneath that
Is You
Observing 
the delusion

When I stop and hear
the stories of my body and heart
my mind would not once let me have
I forgive the broken and embarrassed parts 
and embrace the gentle moments of pure joy
It is the most important conversation I have

Our treasure within
cannot be hurt by the sooty smudges
and punched-in corners of life
the failures and shouting matches
the hurt eyes 
and fallen shoulders

It just keeps holding and gently waiting
to be heard
for the memory to return 
that we are vulnerable Love

Get Quiet 
Ring out and rinse away
distrust
and too many words
Then..
Come home to yourself
You beautiful being x

All Rights Reserved Veronica Farmer 2015