Chris Denton - In The Middle

Here we are
Right in the fucking middle
Turns out we've been here the whole goddamn time
I mean, secretly we always kind of knew we were, but still
But it wasn't being in the middle of everything that had us on the run, is it
That's not what we ran from, for all the good that running did us
No matter where we ran or how well we hid, we'd see it right there
At times, we hid so well that we'd forgotten that we had even hidden
But that didn't even matter
Eventually, after one or a thousand go-arounds, we'd open our eyes and find that we're still right in the center
Right there with all that
There it was, just waiting
It's fucking huge now
Waiting
It's time though, we know that
Avoiding it hasn't worked
Not even a little
Avoiding it, running
Only made us forget what it truly is
We've been calling it by it's false name
A name that's an enchantment and torture that we've crafted in our sleep
Calling it by its false name binds us to the suffering and the hell of our separateness
Calling it by its false name truly makes it unbearable
When we call it by that name, when we call it "my pain" we can do nothing but run
Sometimes, we get a glimpse and find relief by naming it "our pain"
Eventually, we remember that more and more
We start to see that, when it's our pain
That which binds us hand and foot to our suffering and hell
Begins to fall away and hell itself begins to vanish
When it's our pain, we can find the courage to experience it instead of running
When at last we go all in and embrace it, we'll remember it fully
Then we'll delight in alchemical joy as our suffering becomes grace
In our joy, we begin to transmute our pain creatively and in love
We find that we're still right in the middle
Now full of giggles
That which once held such dread, now sits transmuted in glory
It was for this moment that we chose all of it
Even hell
In ecstacy, we at last go forward to enter into union with our love
With a mischevious grin, we call our love's name out
It is the name we choose every time
Our name and our beloved's
The sacred name is our true identity and all there is
At last we embrace our beloved, choosing it all, and speak
LIFE

Written by:
Christopher Denton

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