Other Arms Await You

Scalding words hurled,

Roaring flames of anger hungry to devour and negate

For a moment the fall into the abyss of inadequacy

Then a memory stirs,

A wordless voice reminds,

“Hurt not if the arms of this fickle world withdraw

Other arms  await you,

Unseen arms of love that never judge

Arms that are awaiting just one turn of attention away.”

Pulled into the refuge of those arms wholeness is restored,

A wholeness that unflinchingly confronts the snarls

With a transcendence that knows itself to be beyond their reach,

And smiles at the dream identity the snarls target

And laughs with abandon in the security of the emptiness that is its heart. 

- Anahita Sanjana (India)

Comments

  1. Thakur Prasad12 January 2024 at 20:35

    The emptiness is no void but fullness of the effulgence of the Whole, पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं as the Upanishad says.

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  2. Anonymous13 January 2024 at 00:57

    Beautiful! Touching! Goes right into the heart of Divine embrace- transforming the pain

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  3. Jagrut Dave15 January 2024 at 01:31

    Beautiful poem. Thanks for posting. Sometimes it's the dragons breathing fire that cause us to look within, as there is nowhere else to turn!

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