The wound

"The wound is where the light enters you"
Rumi

Don't try to bandage the wound, cover it, ignore it.
Don't kill the pain with with pills, alchohol or shame.
Don't escape it.
Don't avoid it.
Dig fingers deeper in the wound make it larger and more painful, experience it to the point of ecstatic pleasure, where the whole body vibrates with sensation and the mind can't tell pleasure from pain.
Drown in it.
Drown in the tears and the ache.
Drown in the light.
Drown in the wisdom entering the heart and the love exploding from you.
Emerge, like a butterfly, transformed.
Emerge, like the phoenix, brighter than ever before.