O Visionary – take heart!
The depth of your dark valley will only make
the mountain-top transfiguration
shine more brightly.
Arise, shine, your light is coming!
Indeed it has come,
yet not fully broken into your
closed eyes.
You are exactly where you are to meant to be.
Just because you do not in this moment hear the call—
does not mean the call is not there.
This dark night is part of it.
Dawn only comes when the night is darkest and most weary.
Come away with me, dear one…
Come away and rest with me.
Come away where you will hear my whispers
and where you can see the faint glow of vision
that you will paint into being.
O Visionary – take heart!
You have dwelt in the lands of practicality,
You have eaten the food of realism and common sense
for too long.
You are dying of hunger while gorging yourself!
Now is the time to feast on the stuff of dreams and imagination…
this is what makes your heart sing!
Come away with me and be made whole once again!
Walk the desert, sleep in the quiet shadows of solitude,
listen to the silence, taste the chill of the breeze,
dance among the stars.
I have so much to tell you!
So many secrets to share!
I am making a path for you, and it is almost ready.
My people are waiting for vision. They hunger as you hunger.
They pray for the manna to fall,
but their Visionary is dried up, clean cut off.
Come away, and find me again!
I have what you most seek.
I am waiting for you.
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I am a desert
I have been dry and deserted,
vast and unexplored.
Left behind,
undefined and alone.
You have come to my desert.
You have quenched my thirst
with your words.
You have become an oasis
within my soul,
which has been drowning
in its own sea of emptiness.
You are the living water that has caused
something wonderful to grow.
You have changed my design
and seen the beauty of my parched and damaged soul.
In my desert,
you are the ocean.
- C. L. Williams, a poet
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