The MotherDark

from Total Eclipse of the Mind: Unleashing the Power of Darkness by Andrew Holecek

Withdrawing like a tortoise
into the interior of your being,
in the Dark you focus on
the most intimate of the senses.
You get in touch,
deeper in touch with yourself,
feeling your way, feeling your way.
Darkness makes for depth,
invites slowing, and truth.

Descent into the primordial,
restores.
Being held in the Dark
loosens, softens, purges.
Not only the eyes, the whole body
dilates in the Dark!
The heart can dilate into love
because the Dark
invites, invites opening.

An unwanted sensation?
Feel into it,
without feeding it.
Give yourself permission to feel it
without the extra riffing.
holding, not grasping.
In the cradle of the Dark.
Observe with tenderness,
touching the contraction.

Holding becomes healing
as you stop, and drop
into the experience,
embraced in the Dark.
You can trust
the holding space of Dark,
the generative womb.
You can trust
the Mother Dark.

©Susa Silvermarie 2026

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