"The Unbroken"

I was recently at a wonderfully healing training last week in Cleveland, OH and a poem was read there that was so helpful and beautiful. I wanted to share it. I also want to thank Kay Pranis for all of her support and for reading the poem and to Rashani, the author (www.rashani.com), for allowing me to post it on my blog. I hope others may find healing from it.

There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness out
of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space
too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness
we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart
as we break open
to the place inside which is unbreakable
and whole,
while learning to sing.

--Rashani, 1991
--www.rashani.com