Love Letter No 22 - Empty Love

Dear Bond,
We find positives; "empty love" is no exception. In emptiness there is great blessing. The empty place is the place of preparation. No vessel is ready for use until it is empty, available once again to receive and shape its contents. There is wonderful attraction to the empty places. This emptiness is a soulful sister to silence and restraint. Like that special wind that is "at ease with with the depth of its own emptiness." This is indeed where beginning can be found in the rareness and newness of life.

Who can fathom the mystery of empty love; the fruitful heart has space within.
And as the filling and emptying takes place full renewal grows to mature release.

I offer empty love, and all the mystic possibilities.

With tender affection,
Larryg

PS: An inspiring poem by O'Donohue

Wind Artist
by John O'Donohue
(1955 - 2008)

For Ellen Wingard

Among the kingdom of the winds,
Perhaps, there is one of elegant mind
Who has no need to intrude
On the solitude of single things.

A wind at ease with the depth
Of its own emptiness, who knows
How it was in the beginning,
Before the silence became unbearable
And space rippled to dream things.

A wind who feels how an object strains
To be here, holding its darkness tight
Against the sever of air, ever eager
To enter, and with a swell of light
Dissolve the form in its breathing.

A wind from before memory
Whose patience will see things become
Passionate dust whorled into sighs
Of ghost-song on its wings.

~ from the book Conamara Blues published by Cliff Street Books Copyright 2001 by John O'Donohue

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