Prompt The eye of the hurricane for Poets and Storytellers United
I consider myself a spiritual person, especially in
nature I have some spiritual moments. I asked the universe recently: “How can I become more spiritual”? Soon after I had
some spare time and some unread stuff on my kindle. The first book I read was all about surrender. The writer tells his life story and accepts
everything coming in his life and deals with it
good or bad. The next book I read talked in a slightly different way about
surrender. They seem to use it at AA meetings. Sometimes you are not able to
get things under control as it is too hard, then leave it and surrender to God,
the universe, divine love or whatever name you choose and just ask for help. That was a book from Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I bought it as I love her poem.
In an article on the internet I again bumped into a paragraph about surrender,
to just let things go.
Now that must have been a sign There was my answer. Nothing harder than give up control though 😊 So I had
to write a poem about surrender and wove the eye of the hurricane in there.

Surrender
I cannot help but stop
look at the unremembered sky
vaulted roof of the earth
holder of golden stars
I return to the same space
on life’s spiral stair case
I drift in dreams, a cluster of clouds
opening to the cosmos around
The light trickles through
I remain untouched
Till I hear music
a celestial echo
springing from my soul
The infinite opens inside
A beam of light to guide
For years I tried to ride
the skies to find warmer climes
as a seed on the breath of a breeze
Now it all seems futile
I surrender to the wind
go with the soft summer air
look in the eye of a hurricane
come sun, come rain
I surrender to the divine
let it fill the empty room
where I become a tool
of the great mechanic
who leads me where I need to be
Ps
Just after I finished this post I received a phone call that a well respected colleague died, far too young. I worked closely with him for a long time. Puts me straight to the test: to accept anything....? RIP Greg.