The Gift You’re Destined to Be

No matter how far you’ve traveled in circles on

other people’s detours (adopted as your own).

Regardless of how much time you may feel

you’ve wasted playing small or hiding away.

In spite of the static that may pervade the space

between you and the naked truth of your being.

You are here to be a gift.

You came into this world carrying

a flame that cannot be extinguished,

It is the same light that lives

at the center of all things.

To be here now means that you

carry a secret ingredient in your depths

that is needed by the Soul of the World.

You are the only one

who brings what you bring

in the exact way that you bring it.

Hidden within you is a balm of renewal,

the sacred imagining of a new way,

a golden thread woven by the hand of god.

You carry an ancient key

that cannot be warped by time

or distorted by the heat

of a world gone mad.

At your innermost core echoes

the resounding answer to

our times most pressing questions.

Within you lives a treasure that awaits,

not your voyage of discovery to distant lands,

but your stillness and sinking

into the rich ground of your being.

Entry will cost you no less

than everything inauthentic,

You may have to burn your old house

to the ground before you can see the stars.

At the deepest root you’ll find

a spring dripping nectar,

the pilot light of your existence,

a north star closer to you than

the sound of your own heart beating,

a divine spark tenderly

aching for its liberation,

It is the light of your inimitable gift

waiting to be given to the world

it was always destined for.