Darkness No Match for the Light

If you can't see (and be responsible for)

The consequences

Of your unconsciousness

Then you are still "unconscious"

Let's drop the romanticized notion

That becoming "more conscious"

Puts a "get out of jail free card in your hand"

And you just catapult straight to enlightenment

Knowing this

It doesn't serve

To whistle in the wind

As though there is no darkness

Further dark energies

Shame, Judgement, Persecution

Will not serve 

Bring then, light to the darkness

To ignore the darkness

Only gives it more power

Nothing to fear in the shadows

Merely an absence of light 

  

Renounce 

The negative opinions and judgments

Of others

Continued punishment 

Cannot "convert" dark to light

There will be those

That want to keep renewing history

If they won't let it go

Let them go

"Mistakes" 

While unconscious

Neither alibi

Nor life sentence

You must become your 

Best friend, hero, advocate

Love yourself deeply enough 

To be your soul's champion

The darkness within you

Is a call

To you from you

For your own love and attention

Self-abandonment and neglect

Will imprison you

On the wheel of seeking external fixes

Or projected blame

Darkness invites you to come home (to yourself)

Once there

Turn some lights on

And restore it as your sacred sanctuary

R.O'Neill (Aug. 07, 2017)