I have been stunned, humbled and opened with gratefulness for all the love that has flooded our family the last two years. I wrote this poem a while ago, exploring how sometimes our own darkness is a chance to be amazed by the light of others, and now it’s part of the new album, DARK PRAISE.
Featuring guitar by Steve Law, art by Marisa S. White, and the video skills of Tony Jeannette, I want to send this poemvideo very personally to every one of you who helped to carry me. I cry almost every time I try to read this poem aloud (I know, not too surprising) just thinking of how grateful I am.
THIS is for you. Please share it with others who have brought light to your darkest times. You can download this track and the whole album on Spotify or iTunes for free. You can also support the album by buying it on Bandcamp.
Here’s to kindness. For it is never wasted, and is often amplified just by being.
Yes. Yes–here’s to kindness. So essential to our survival, to our being.
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Beautiful Rosemerry. 👏
We all have to learn how to feel safe in the darkness; to be with it, and to understand how it reveals again and again, the eternal light that we are. ⭐️ 💫
so beautifully said–this idea has been soo sooo important for me–ever since reading “You, Darkness” by Rilke about 11 years ago … it changed everything about my relationship with the dark.
Yes I love Rilke too and for me it was Rumi. Very grateful to those who entered this space before me! 🤗
yes, Rumi for me, too …
This is so beautiful, Rosemerry. For two years, I have been awed by the grace and the beauty of the journey you have made and the poems that marked your passage. Truly inspiring. You show how our words touch each other online across the globe. With so much darkness on the web, how we flourish in the words of light and love that poets share – words of hope, of inspiration, and of keeping on keeping on, because that is what we do. Thank you for the light you give us through your poems. You may have no idea of some who come and read and slip quietly away, but whose hearts you have so deeply touched.
I humbly echo, Sherry’s sentiment — if I may…..
Oh Sherry, thank you for these kind words, for this affirmation. Thank you for being a part of these conversations, for joining in, for bringing your attention and your heart. Thank you for this encouragement! ❤️❤️