Truthfully

Image source: http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/meh.ro10617_1.jpg The art of listening Truly listening to someone with Your whole entire depth Takes time and requires practice If I’m truly in it with my presence The experience can be meaningful for everybody involved Including me Imagine taking somebody with Your gaze Taking them fully in They know You are there for … Read more

A Simple Conversation

Image source: http://www.desktopwallpaperhd.net/background-nature-conversation-112674.html It’s warmer together The heart beats a deeper rhythm It’s closer together Bodies locked in knowing Knowing that this will end So they move slowly Gratefully as one Hearts opening in silence Just a look can say all that’s needed Deeply, sweetly, discreetly A simple conversation That takes a lifetime Ian Altosaar

In Death

Image source: http://www.zastavki.com/eng/Nature/Mountains/wallpaper-43616-0.htm Death has a strange way of giving life to new perspectives They always go hand in hand If You taste one, You have one foot in the other That’s the nature and cycle of life It’s a terribly soothing concept Death In all it’s glory and power So powerful, yet so fragile … Read more

Being Humbled

Image source: http://www.wallpaperup.com/560643/Seasons_Winter_Mountains_Snow_Trees_Rays_of_light_Sun_Natur_rustic_farm_house_barn.html There’s something truly magical About a man being humbled By his own bullshit, wounding His shortcomings as a man That man slows down He moves with grace He listens with care He loves with an open heart He becomes a vessel for God to shine through The pain has made him soft … Read more

Ask and You Shall Receive

Image source: http://www.paperhi.com Ain’t it funny? That we can feel so depleted and weak And so full of strength at the same time So eager to meet each other and yet disconnected from ourselves? This world is filled up with paradox The juice of the mind It’s squeezed out of everything and into The minds … Read more

A Mighty Grip

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. Have You ever known pain? Pain the size of a hurricane? It grips You into it’s mighty grasp The only thing that will carry You through this Is the knowing This too shall pass The feeling lost years ago Memories of it still last I want to hold on … Read more

On The Edge of Somewhere

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. To sit on the edge of somewhere In the great unknown Is a terrifying place to be Scary as hell, one might even say But this is the only things that really exists Being on the edge of something new Waiting and yearning for completion And when it arrives … Read more

Full of Shit

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. Basically we are all full of shit and the moment we think we aren’t, life shows us otherwise. All there is left to do is to pray in silence. One of the most powerful places to be is in a constant state of “I don’t know”. Continuously surrendering to … Read more

A Quiet Affair

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. A quiet affair Life sometimes is I’m called to sit and feel More than Run around and peel The layers from my needs Sitting feels healthy I can again notice the quietness It speaks so loudly to my soul Seems like I’m becoming more whole As if side by … Read more

The Witness

Image source: Estonia, Lääne-Virumaa, Obja village. When You move into life fully It becomes a paradox You can stand in Yourself And be in great pain and joy at the same time Walking among people Feeling disconnected and beautifully held It all changes and stays the same As You slow down Things begin to move … Read more