Kiss of Darkness

Practice with the darkness

Let her kiss you between the shoulder blades

Breathe in her stillness,

quieting your bones,

settling them like leaves into earth

Practice with the darkness

Let her hold you in your naked flesh

Spiral in to her embrace

Relaxing your belly,

Softening your body

like moss absorbing the rain

Practice with the darkness

Let her enshroud your mind

like forest mist

Dream with her emptiness

Releasing any plans,

have steaming tea with uncertainty

Practice with the darkness

Let her beat your heart with Winter’s drum

Love with her persistence

Staying with Truth,

Hibernate in this deepest Self love

Practice with the darkness

Let her marinate your spirit

Dissolve into her creativity

Inspiring your soul

Illuminated like the cold super moon on the darkest of nights

Practice with the darkness

Entering her womb space

May you embody the gifts offered by her

Dance of slowness

Intuition of blackness

Peace of silence

May you feel nourished by Winter’s presence—

Revitalized for whatever life’s wild Spring may bring

* cold moon photo by Phil Hutcherson with onmurdencove.com

**inspired by the cold super moon and the words gifted to me by my friend Sandra O’Connor with https://www.inserviceofher.com/

with her invitation to community solstice gathering “Breathe.  Spiral in.  Love.  Dream.  Dissolve”