Invitation: The Place Between Light and Dark

The trapeze swings out
and you have to let go.
In between can be a hard place,
meant to teach you to trust
in something more than your own mind.

When your hands
slip from the bar—
do you see the one
whose wrists you can grasp
flying towards you in the night?

The heart yearns to soar,
but you can’t remember
how to be free.
Always hanging on so tight, afraid of the ride;
thrilling, risky, a little dangerous.

A gift lies buried beneath it all.
Unwrap yourself from all you know,
let go and rise into the air,
into the deathless, exhilarating
moment of surrender where everything — is all right.

Where love surrounds you, holds you
and a net, woven blue light, as wide
as your willingness to forgive,
waits —
with infinite patience.

—Elise Stuart