Honesty: A Poem

"Honesty"

A smiling face

Unblinking eye

The colors of sunrise

Warming, infusing

The letters of a moment

Until, red-hot,

They boil over

Spill into the ineffable space
Between two persons
Who have nothing to hide
Nothing to hide
Because all that can be known
Is known
And all that can’t be known
Is embraced for what it is:
The heart of faith
Of spirit of trust
A wordless recognition
That all is well,
All is well:
That truth has indeed brought freedom
From fear
And opened a space
So great and wide
That this sunrise love
Can light the dark places
And show forth the truth
That makes shadows fade
Until there is only light,
Only light.