The Leap

I am the light that darkness cannot overcome

At once the mother holding her child and the woman

longing for the baby she cannot carry

I am where the visible and the invisible merge

the blindfold is lifted, the heart is stretched

I am where you end and I begin

In the breath that washes away all lies 

I am where no mask can be kept

for God calls me by my many names and yet still knows me as one

I am where joy and pain stand in hand like water and ice

as this choice to expand is both tender and ruthless

I am where all is transformed, beyond this valley of death

breathing from this territory unknown onto the wings of life itself

For now, whatever I may or may not have become,

finally certain to be resting in this grace, I say in truth:

I am enough.