Darkest Light

In a dark empty black box I sit reciting lines
Mouthing the poetry of Elizabethan times
My thoughts racing in various other directions
Horrified by images; news feeding confections
In honesty wishing my mind and my eyes were apart
Echoing pit in my stomach cease swallowing my heart
Creases and cracks deepen into once thickest skin
Unsettled, shaken and more insecure than I’d ever been
Recede past centuries Love and Soul meant everything
This day their meaning blunted by Human Conditioning
Drape the final curtain around my bleeding heart
My time is now the dance of building a life apart
Twirling and leaping between past and present
Flesh chilled in the shadow of the moon’s crescent
Tightening the tunicate pulsing and bleeding through
Salty streams crest my cheeks knowing I have lost you

© August 2009

Liberate Me

I could wish every curse onto
The beings that wounded me
That their egoism would come back
Upon them in threefold consequence

I could recite every misdeed
Evoke every hurt
Reiterate every tale of malevolence

Instead, I choose to forgive
The beings that wounded me

To remove their poisonous darts
Imbedded within my heart
And return that venom with love

I shed their cruelty like a coat of skin
And step into the sunlight
Choosing the path of peace instead of revulsion
Embracing grace and liberating me…

© July 2009