Visitation

I woke in despair and dereliction and put a hand to my heart to comfort myself.

The goddess came. She that is both lover and mother. It was her hand against my heart. I no longer comforted myself. She comforted me.

I was relieved, but then sensed where she was taking me, and I was filled with dread. Even as she held me, she showed me how everything would be taken away, and all that I feared most would happen.

She said: Though it all passes, I shall hold you.

I saw how the fullness of being held is the same as the emptiness of everything taken away.

She said: Held by me, emptiness is fullness. Emptiness and the loss of everything are held in the light of my perpetual embrace.