Sweet Darkness by David Whyte

When your eyes are tired

the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone

no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark

where the night has eyes

to recognize its own.

There you can be sure

you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb tonight.

The night will give you a horizon

further than you can see,

you must learn one thing,

The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds

except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it take darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn

anything or anyone that does not bring you alive

is too small fo you.