blessing for the place between

when you come to the 

place between.

when you have left 

what you held 

most dear.

when you are 

traveling toward the

life you know not.

when you arrive 

at the hardest ground.

may it become for you

a place to rest.

may it become for you

a place to dream.

my the pain that has

pressed itself into you

give way to vision,

to knowing.

may the morning 

make of it 

an altar,

a path,

a place to begin

again.

--jan richardson