I am reading a powerful book called Soulcraft by Bill Plotikin. It is about the answering the call of our soul and doing the personal work to which we are called in order to understand the work our soul wants to do in the world. He uses many poems throughout the book. The previous postings here contain a few. Here is another:

...Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn on thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

- David Whyte