Poem: When you are at peace

I've recently had the pleasure of meeting Nicola Offner, a local artist and poet.  She has a very deep connection with nature and has many psychic gifts.  She expresses these with beautiful pieces of art and poetry.  Here is her website The Sentient Garden

She read me this poem over the phone and it blew me away.  I touched aspects of my own current journey which really spoke to me.  Here it is.

When you are at peace

When you are at peace
With the silence that surrounds you
When you are at peace
With the noise of life
When you succumb
To the tension
And give it all up
To the Spirit within

​Then …         then
I will come to you
Can I come to you
And show you the door
To your sanctuary

I cannot push
​I cannot offer
I can only be
And when you only ‘are’
And accept what is
Then … can the space around you e x p a n d
And let in what you have been looking for

When… you cease your searching
When… you cease your wanting
When… you say yes to now
And give it up to me.
There comes a point in life
​When the burdens may be washed from you

Breathe, feel and know:
My arms are open wide to you
In the vast expanse
Of me
​
Breathe, and you can follow
Breathe, and you can sense
Breathe, and you can release
Into the night of your existence
All that no longer serves
And willingly will I take it from thee
For you to return to me.

Sit silent now in the stillness
And open to the expanse
The infinite
The infinity of me