The Ways Through It
These are the ways
through it:
One.
Imagine your body a
tower.
Your blood is mortar, your
bones turn brick,
you render yourself
impenetrable.
A fortress of your own
creation,
the mote around your
feet grows to ocean.
You push the tide
outwards with your hands,
you, the sorceress, the
magician, the controller of your universe,
you watch it retreat
when it touches the shore
and bring it back to
you.
Not this.
Your body
is not a tower
has never been armor
has never known how to
still
to protect this beating
heart
has only ever known
to care for her
quietly, and these
are the ways through
it:
One.
Imagine yourself a
shadow.
A trick of light.
A terrestrial ghost for
non-believers
neither seen nor
touched-
people think they saw
you once.
A two-dimensional
emptiness that takes up
no space,
you spread yourself thin,
take up only the
places that are
walked over,
you
know all the motions of
a person
living a life.
Stop here.
You earthly body of
cells and breath,
you mortal energy of
skin and blood
you make this being human
an art of love, of beauty,
you three-dimensional
being of real,
how you breathe your
heart,
your beating heart,
it is living, you are
living,
and these are the ways
through it:
One.
Find yourself unwrapped-
there are so many
hearts left surprised by you.
Let them be amazed by
your open
do not deny this world,
there is such
creation within you
you blessed, holy being
of love,
this is the only way
through it:
the breaking, surviving
the moving, surviving
the healing, surviving
unraveling, surviving
the hoping, and ripping,
and cutting
surviving,
it is here, it is
waiting, it is real, and
this is the way through
it:
One.
Imagine yourself
growing.
Your branches, your
stem, your leaves and petals
may be torn and
scattered
till all evidence of
you is ruined.
There are so many ways out
of this life, but this.
This.
This is the way through
it:
One.
Imagine your roots.
Your safe roots.
They are deep.
They are reaching,
embracing, grounding, holding,
and this
is the way
through it:
One.
Imagine your roots.
Your roots will never
leave
this sacred ground.
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