Awaken. Heal. Inspire.
Waves of tears
Lapping at my feet
Waves of light
Trying with all their might
To get us to wake up
To hear their cries for help
And feel the sting of their salty truths
Against our indignant ears,
The putrid scent of death
And near extinction
Not yet pungent enough
To ride the wave of salvation,
Instead, slowly drowning,
Drowning
As the last wave crashes at my feet
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Her whole life before her
She takes one step,
And then another,
Into the wilderness of her own mind
Feeding herself on words
Which fall like manna from the sky,
Deepening into her descent
Until the blackness swallows her whole
And on the other side
She finds the peace she’d not dared to seek
Peeking out from behind every obstacle,
Offering its battered hand
I’m home, she thinks
And even in her solace, she knows better
She can’t hide here forever
She has to learn to bring peace back home
©SpiritLed 2020
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Inside our aching, breaking hearts
Lives a song, a melody
A fleeting remembrance of a time in which
We never lived
But loved and knew it all the same
The sights, the smells, the sounds
All embedded in our cells
Yet only a masquerade of light
Why then, does it feel so real?
Why then, do our hearts long
For something out of reach?
Unless our DNA has slipped away
To travel worlds without us
And bring us back together
A new person
A new song
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Time goes by
And with it
The passing of things as they were
People and places fade into the background
While others move forward
It’s their time now to shine
Until time turns again
Like a merry go round
I get to try out the view from each horse
As we all spin around
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In this world as I see it now
There is darkness,
So much pain, fear
And justifiable anger
And there is also light,
Seeping between the sensational headlines,
Weaving through the hateful words spewed across the aisle,
Lights in the cracks of institutional walls
Crumbing under our own weight
There is light if I choose to see it
There is light if I choose to be it
If I don’t succumb to collective fear
But instead rise up in solidarity,
In truth and power for my fellow beings
Letting my light seep through the cracks,
Crumble the walls,
Create a barrier for hate,
Offer a healing salve for all who hurt
Let the light in
Let the light in
©SpiritLed 2020
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Will this rain ever stop
Inside my brain,
My heart,
I’m drenched
Drowning in despair
Lack of meaningful thoughts
No air
Until I hear the drops again
And my being shatters against the wall
“No more,” the words pour out
And just like that,
With one ask (no, one demand)
Clear thoughts arise
Crisp like mountain air,
Clearing out
Making space
Old is new again
And I,
I see you with a clarity
Never felt before
Your golden face and starry eyes
Your arms reaching for the sky
And in this moment,
This clear moment,
We join hands and rise
©SpiritLed 2019