SURRENDERING TO INTIMACY

(c) 2010 Howard McQueen

When we surrender to intimacy

the lurking and hiding,

the pushing away and aggressing,

are supremely threatened.

That which interrupts the sacredness of intimacy

can then be illuminated in the spotlight of awareness

and seen for its rooted claim,

its clinging to separation and pain.

Available for summoning is an inner courage,

to support and service the surrendering and dying

of the self grown accustomed to its rootedness in separation,

its holding on to the inflamed intentions

to disrupt and attempt to scuttle intimacy.

The work is a process of surrendering the separation,

to consciously and continuously choose intimacy,

to compassionately witness when our intentions stray.

These are our pointers to the root causes,

breeding our discontent and suffering