Darkness

Darkness is not merely a hiding place.....a safe space you can slip into to incubate or live like a cast away from the harsh world outside. It is much more than that. It makes you feel safe because it takes you into the terrifying and soul-stirring depths of insecurity, uncertainty and discomfort....a space where few have the courage and will to tread, a home that we have abandoned and forgotten, while being lured into greener pastures filled with light and joy.

It is not a battlefield where wars are fought and demons slain and conquered. Nor is it a graveyard for the outcasts shunned by the world, who do not have another safe space to be their wild and free selves. It is not a second-hand home. It is home, the home of all homes.

It is a space where all preconceived concepts and beliefs written in stone meet and watch their own death, for they make no more sense....much like the futility of naming colours, or describing the mountains, the tall trees, the sea or the endless sky to a blind man who has never seen or experienced those. It is a space where inadequacy is transformed into great power and resolve, where silence is the language that hearts speak and understand.

And yet, it is a space rich and full of infinite possibilities like the fresh, dark earth....where everything is pure celebration, a welcoming, an opportunity for magical alchemy.... where the mind can wander and roam free, with no compulsion to limit itself to well-drawn out, imposed boundaries and boring templates....a space where you have to 'feel' your way through with your whole being, where things are never what they seem or what you think they 'ought to' look or feel like, where anything and everything is possible, because you are truly free from your own limiting idea of yourself.