Category Archives: Poetry

The enemy prayer

They may see me as their enemy but may they not be enemies in my heart, for there are only so many chances to love in this lifetime only so many chances to be transformed © Meisaan Chan

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The perpetual lift

Sometimes you protect me from the stupid things I do and other times you expose me, hoping that I learn; both ways are pure compassion, for even when I fall there I am, on the ground and wiser there you … Continue reading

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One pathway there

Testing leads to trust trust leads to following following leads to submission submission leads to a million glowing stars © Meisaan Chan

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Opening door, glowing light

Opening door, glowing light joy and sorrow enmeshed as I leave the old behind © Meisaan Chan

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Tending hope

Tenderly I wash the wound and know that wholeness will come © Meisaan Chan

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That feeling that something is missing

If something is missing, come first to me, God says and I will fill every hole; or you can come last to me and I will still fill every hole, but there will be many more of them © Meisaan … Continue reading

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Home to you

The path plunges into darkness but I have chosen this path carefully and know its destination so I need not fear my blindness: home to you, home to you in the darkness, step by step I’m traveling home to you … Continue reading

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In the darkness, the senses shift

Eyes need light but ears do not; they do not fear the dark © Meisaan Chan

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The choice

No one can make you resilient; you must do it yourself © Meisaan Chan

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Rejecting beauty

Why reject my beauty, asks the Creator; from my womb I pushed you out and infused you with my beauty © Meisaan Chan

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