Dark Embrace

There is strength in stillness

Hiding seed-like in the center of the deep

Until the appointed time of Emergence

We push aside the darkness

Reaching out with blind questing fingers

Scrabbling toward an unseen Goal

Then a brief moment of light

A glimpse of the burning blue sky

And a return to the forgotten place of our Birth

There we settle once more in silence

We breathe in with overwhelming relief

The sleeping draught of blissful Oblivion

And we fall into dreams of unknown worlds

Traveling the shadowed paths until we are called again

To burst out unwilling into Bloom