Journey Home

~ Journey Home ~ 

Closed eyes, lids shut tight

Diving inward, immersed

Beneath entangled thoughts

Swimming amidst Ego’s landmines

Swaying, bobbing, a victim of

Undercurrents ebbing, pushing guilt

Pulling, flowing with fears

Eyes open, sudden awakening

Releasing to embrace willingness

Letting go intentionally

What is this that beckons me onward?

Luring me with Omnipresent Light

I follow, opening to trust

Acceptance of my spirit’s

Natural state

Doors unencumbered by hinges and locks

Open upon request as beatific songs

Fill my ears, “Come closer, trust I Am here”

Opening, exploding with desirous longing

Thoughts of guilt and doubt fall away

Softly I step into my own longing

Embracing the Eternal Love of Christ

I am home

I am home

I am home

Poetry by Maryanne Mesplé

Artwork by David Mesplé

"Incandescent Visions of a Dark Earth"

Never

Never

Never do we ask to be

In a place where demons

Are free to rule

With aggression and

Pointed vile words

Never

Never do we beg to feel

The piercing points of

Words meant to kill

One’s spirit

Never

Never are we poised and

And ready to

Discover we are

Loathed and Hated

By those we love

Never

Never are we prepared

To defend our heart’s

Passions and faults

For our heart is who

We are inside

Never

Never are we meant

To shed a million tears

Regretting life

Regretting love

Regretting hope

Regretting faith

Regretting our own 

Existence

Never

Tearing Apart

Evening skies are falling

Drenching my heavy heart

Tears from the clouds slash me

Reminding me of my loss

The stillness is

Tearing my heart

Apart

Wetness soaks me

My bones feel cold

Sounds of liquid stones

Pounding 

Penetrating my soul

The stillness is

Tearing my heart

Apart

The smell of the earth’s longing

As she drinks in the rain

Soothes my spirit

Hope perhaps 

Regained – no –

The stillness is

Tearing my heart

Apart

Evening skies groan

Hurling light across the heavens

I sit and remember

Through sight, smell and touch

Through hearing and taste

The stillness inside is

Tearing my heart

Apart

Poem and Photo by Maryanne Mesplé

In The Stillness of The Night

~In The Stillness of The Night~

Softly, gently, in the stillness of night

Your spirit slipped away taking flight

You curled up your body as if

Putting it away

Not needing to come back

You simply flew away

My tears call your name

My prayers beckon an

Answer

And the night gives

Me promise

That there is a hereafter

You said good night

You whispered a good bye

And I was too busy to listen

Distracted by my day

To know you had gone

Deciding not to stay

Softly, gently, in the stillness of night

Your spirit slipped away taking flight

Not needing to come back

You simply

Peacefully

Flew away

My brother, William Edward Hughes - Bill

Flew off to heaven, February 6th, 2016

Poem by Maryanne Mesplé April 17, 2016

Questions Answered

My Question

Am I a helpless codependant soul

Incapable of being apart from 

Those that dramatize my world? No ...

Am I defined by reckless

Emotions of Egos?

Egos that flail about with intentions of

Demanding penance from me?

Desiring a penance demonstrating self deprecation,

Self Annihilation of my Spirit, my light? No ...

What do I want? Where is God?

Who am I? What is my defining essence?

My Answer

I Am A Co-Arising Eternal expression of God.

I am success defined with and by love,

I am freedom within my expressions, 

I am my passions,

I am the peace and harmony of this moment 

Never to be lost.

I am clarity and focus - I am Attention fired by Intention.

I am in that Gap between the here and the now. 

I draw creativity into my being and then ...

Then I breathe life into my creative expressions to become me.

I am my written voice, my verbal voice, my

Silent unspoken words of pain and joy.

I am the flow of self expression desiring 

To touch hearts and souls in sharing life.

I am What I think and What I say. 

I am THAT part of Creation - The I Am part of what was before me

And what will be after me and what is inside of me.

I am found in the pause between my inhaling and exhaling,

I am that space between my heart and my soul and more.

In That space, That gap,  I find my beginning

 Concocting the recipe of my essence, creating who I AM

So that I may find who I AM and why I AM.

And I know with a quiet earthshaking certainty that ....

I exist because of God - I Will always BE because of GOD.

I am not my Ego, 

I am not what is demanded of me by other Egos,

Egos that unconsciously desire everyone

 to stay lost in pain and suffering ... 

No. I. Am. Not.

With my Questions came my Answers

With my Answers there is release of 

An eternity of tension within me.

My body melts away into my true ethos

Where I am at peace between the

Gaps of my life filled by GOD.

I can now see My true reflection of who I AM,

I see MY essence mirrored back at me.

 In THEIR eyes as they look at me,

And It is like kissing the lips of GOD with my soul

And I tangibly and visually feel the Love of 

Infinity.

Even if I am the only one that sees me, still I am comforted

By knowing YOU know who I am 

All questions answered and peace ensues