Secrets to Share

4 Jan

A friend shared this poem with me today, and I was pleasantly surprised by the way it resonated with my thoughts recently. Thus, I pass it on without further ado for further consideration!

Your Mission. . . Should You Choose to Accept It

By Hugh Eckert (2004)

Listen, I will tell you an awful secret,

A terrible heresy, a forbidden Truth:

This life is meant to be enjoyed.

We are here to play in the Garden-

To be ourselves, only more so

To make happy and be happy, love and be loved.

(Beloved, be Love!)

Say this and be damned,

Do this and be scorned,

Dare this and win!

Dance this life, grow drunken on it,

Make laughter your ally

In this alchemy.

All the biggest lies of history deny this:

life is not meant to be suffering;

The addition of those words-

Click as tumblers fall, the lock moves,
light shines around the edges

Of the door to Joy.