Poetic Ponderings

As Simple As, by Sarah Burkle

It does often seem glamorous

Waking from groggy nightmares

Crusted eyes and dry mouth

Yet one eye can open after the other,

The foot can touch the floor, one after the other

Step, step, step.

We bask in the glory of light-filled days

We cower in the shadows when darkness falls

Believing we can’t see or find our way

Forgetting, perhaps, that we hold a lantern

To light the path, if only the next small step.

Who walks beside me?

One voice exclaiming the uproarious feat of scaling this mountain!

Another whispering, it is as simple as opening your eyes to daylight when sleep is no longer needed.

Sarah Burkle (Worrell) is an artist, writer, mother, and therapist who works at the intersection of science and spirituality, seeking to bring about non-ordinary states of consciousness which have been shown to provide a fundamental environment for deep healing. She earned her master's degree in counseling from Saint Mary's College in 2013, and became certified in MDMA-assisted therapy with MAPS, Integrative Somatic Trauma-Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Reiki. She owns Non-Ordinary Therapies, a private-practice dedicated to providing quality mental, emotional, and spiritual support to assist people in accessing their deepest levels of self and a richer connection with the world. She also helped co-found Moon Blossom Collective in 2023. Becoming No One: Moments of Divine Spaciousness in a Typically Cluttered Mind is Sarah’s debut poetry collection about the process of awakening. Becoming No One takes readers through a journey of the dark corners of the human mind and finds hope in suffering, as our greatest teacher on the path to enlightenment.