What excites you? What wakes you up inside? What buzzes through you until your soul comes to life? What stops you in your tracks? We are all created with the capacity for deep desire. We are born to have passions that move us on the inside. We have things we lose ourselves in, where time disappears and we feel at home in ourselves. Desire is a powerful force. Too important to miss and too essential to waste. I realized recently that I have been believing a lie about desire.

Before me lay a great black pool So deep, so beautiful It contained a multitude A mixture of curious color Midnight sky Living soil Red blood All shown through the surface Glistening from the source Drawn to its shores I stepped into the inky liquid I heard the onlookers say She must be crazy Doesn't she know? She'll be stained forever Marked I knew they were right And I moved all the faster I raced past my feet, shins, knees And as the cool hit my thighs I dove in, head firs