We have not long to love.

Light does not stay.

The tender things are those

we fold away.

Coarse fabrics are the ones

for common wear.

In silence I have watched you

comb your hair.

Intimate the silence,

dim and warm.

I could but did not, reach

to touch your arm.

I could, but do not, break

that which is still.

(Almost the faintest whisper

would be shrill.)

So moments pass as though

they wished to stay.

We have not long to love.

A night. A day.

~Tennessee Williams

when it’s time to step into the light…

inquiry for today~ when it feels like there’s nowhere to go, what then?

finding our way….

It always comes back to the same necessity:

go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

~May Sarton