RECEIVING YOUR VOICE

~ Brooke McNamara

You will hear voices. Some of them

will be cruel and taunting.

They will feel real in the moment.

They are not. They are just patterns

performing characters. No one knows

why. Train your ear to listen through them

to the open silence in which they arise.

The silence may not feel graspable.

It’s not. But give your life to knowing it

directly, and a voice will begin to flow

from nowhere, up your spine like liquid love

and in through your pores like sunlight.

It is your own. Use it well, and then release it

back to the silence with a heart of thanks.