In Celebration of Moonheart
Everyone who read it fell in love with it.
Lamplight in a Jar
What is sacred is whatever you hold in your hand, your heart, your memory.
Ecstasy and the seven footprints of Buddha and the knots that tie you
to this world and the next.
Walk into the realm of the sacred, take seven steps.
We are creating the world we live in.
That is reality.
Not your mother’s refusal to look at you.
Not the man who followed you down the street.
Not the fire that is always burning outside your door.
Break through and there is the myth.
The once upon a time.
The heart of the heart of the matter.
You live in two worlds, the sacred and the profane,
The now and the later,
The beginning of all time and the end of time.
You walk through space and time as you set off,
down city streets,
knowing that a thousand breaths have come before yours.
Open the door, take up the lanterns, save yourself.
Both horses are equally necessary, the white horse and the black,
restraint and temperance, shamans and prophets.
Heaven and earth were forcibly separated during creation.
Is that the origin of everything? Death, life, sorrow, your heart beating?
Give me everything. Give me light.
I’ll walk through the darkness until I hold it in my hands.
© Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Book of Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston.
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