When your eyes are tiredthe world is tired also.

When your vision has goneno part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the darkwhere the night has eyesto recognize its own.

There you can be sureyou are not beyond love.

The dark will be your hometonight.

The night will give you a horizonfurther than you can see.

You must learn one thing.The world was made to be free in

Give up all the other worldsexcept the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn

anything or anyonethat does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

- "Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte

In the words of David Whyte:

This poem was written out of that very physical and almost breathless giving away most human beings feel when they must let go of what seems most precious to them, not knowing how or when it will return, in what form or in what voice - that taking away of the light, walking through divorce or separation, through bereavement or through simply not recognising the person looking back at us in the mirror. 'Sweet Darkness' was written in a kind of defiant praise of this difficult time of not knowing, a letter of invitation to embrace the beauty of the night and of the foundational human experience of not being able to see, as actually another horizon, and perhaps the only horizon out of which a truly new revelation can emerge.