A Prayer for Inner Peace

Hopefully everyone has had a very peaceful New Years so far.  And on that note, Mary is tending to tonights Poetics over at D'Verse, where she's discussing just that, Peace.  Please do stop by, read her wonderful article and check out what the other poets have shared.  

And while you're there, may you be filled with both inner and outer peace.  May you find yourself a sanctuary, a respite, from all that ails.   Reflect upon all the things that make you whole and bring you calm, delivering you to your center and all the peace it therein spawns.  

Then, as you stay basking in your blissful glow, if the inspiration finds you there, inhale, take it in and let it grow and grow.  And if you so choose, please do share, for the peace you find, may it find others as well.

I can't tell you how nice it was to find this topic today.  I've been kind of in a certain mode all day, where but only for an hour or so did I make my way beyond the confines of my bedroom walls, only to let the dogs outside and for a few other times of necessity. 

While this hibernation of sorts was certainly a consequence of a massive wave of exhaustion, and while the plethora of sleep it spurred was dearly needed, there's a sense of lost time, wasting the day and sorts that comes with it.  

So, for the past short while now I've been awake.  With the waking grogginess still fresh, I had felt a bit down that I did indeed accomplish nothing whatsoever today.  But, with opening up D'verse tonight changed that mindset simply by seeing the word peace.  

That word, and all it can encompass, instantly brought a reality forth.  Briefly, for the past 20 hours or so, I've been disconnected from everything: light, sound, television, internet, radio, books and magazines.  I only had a very brief conversation with my family earlier in the day. And while I did have my dogs with me for most of the sleeping hours, I was truly apart and away from everything.  

It matters not that it was not by my own choosing either.  This getting away, while revitalizing the body with the rest needed, also, now that I can truly reflect upon it, also provided the mind a sorely needed revitalization of it's own kind.

So, I didn't really have anything prepared to write for this theme tonight, I thought I'd share this story, as it obviously relates, but, seeing this is poetics I thought I'd put a short poem together as well.  

Please, please, please

Let me close my eyes

Please, I beg, please

Let me awaken to

A peaceful serenade,

A Shangri-La, in gentle sway

to fall into

Please, please, please

Bring me love and bring me peace

then, I'll pray, then I'll pray

that I’ll know its face when you do

on that day, and I’ll reciprocate unto

Never letting go, never letting go

Always, forever, always and forever

Having something to hold on to

Embraced always, always embraced

Forever—a warmth, a warmth revealed, 

a smile sealed, embraced and healed,

embraced and healed