י״א באב תשע"א
Lughnasadh 13
Mysteries of THE TORCH -
"Only the Torch is found by itself ..." [Klach Pischey Chochmah 55 (138 Openings of Wisdom)]
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My original poem, THE TORCH, written over a decade ago, some time following my Dark Night initiation into the Mysteries:
when facts tell lies and confusion reigns
when knowledge and ignorance with futility dance
when hope is dying and faith is failing
truth remains
when pain is endless and pleasure empty
when will lies heavy like stone and clarity is obscured
when wisdom reeks and reason flees
truth remains
when the heart staggers broken
with shattered strength and love drowns lost in the abyss
truth remains
when darkness reverberates blindly
and eternity is filled with hell
truth remains
when life is crushing and all is torn, when hiding cannot conceal
and wretching waters burn the naked dust
truth remains
when the pause is pregnant like a rock of hate against us
truth remains
[Original poem © 1996 Lori Lappin - all rights reserved.]
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SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
[Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty Like the Night]
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A Wyrd-Worker is one who has entered into her inmost darkness and emerged from it Whole, changed forever, a Witch, and able to experience herself anew.
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