The sweetness that comes after grief

True human beings know
the moment you accept 
what troubles you've been given,
the door will open.
Welcome difficulty, as a familiar comrade.
Joke with torment brought by the Friend.

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover,
and then are taken off.
That undressing,
and the naked body underneath,
is the sweetness that comes after grief.

--  Rumi

 This, by the way, is the other Breezy Point painting, finished Friday morning...