Arms Wide Open

Arms wide open to embrace all,
Arms outstretched, acknowledging and accepting Universe and Insect,
All that is to come and all that has been.
Arms wide open, nailed to the immovable and unrelenting cross.
Arms wide open to embrace me.

And I, what shall I do?
What is to come and what has been?
"Let go", they cry!
Let the hurt and pain and fear and disappointment and betrayal fall from my hands.
Reach out, embrace Death, then Life and Love.
And fly?
Into outstretched arms, with arms wide open.