“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
– Rumi
So this is joy
Waking with a smile in place
Loving what is
Receiving and replenishing
Yes this is joy
A burst seed
Growing inside
The damp earth of my body
Hello joy
I say each morning
I will water you
With all the moisture I can give
Stay joy
Be at home
Inside the soft walls
Of my thirsty soul
