Eyes

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 takes darkness and the sweet 

confinement of your aloneness

to learn 

anything or anyone 

that does not bring you alive 

is too small for you.