

There is Beauty

There is beauty in the resistance
Moved to the beat of the drum
The drum beats inside your head
Am I enough
the beat wants to know
It is a refrain that moves mountains
and holds me still
Moving from possible to impossible
and back again
The words dance slowly
through the darkest night
Illumined only by the barest moon
hanging outside
the frosted window pane
Do crows fly in the darkness
of the night or only
in the darkness of my heart
Power comes in numbers
too big to ignore
And too small to pay attention to
We ignore the little things until
Suddenly…explosion
Consuming all on its path
A path strewn with adventure
And danger
And delight
The razor’s edge
Walk the razor edge as you enter
and bow
What do you hold as sacred
Is it beyond the scared spot safely
tucked away in your heart
Beyond the secret shame I cling to
as precious
Beyond the gifts of not enough
Receiving the darkness
It is the journey to the light
Dancing in the shadows
Shapes morph and blur as colors dull
The outstretched hand grabs the knob
Tugging
The light floods in
As the door opens

Us Is One
Delicious
Voracious
Floating in a sea of silence
Mind quiet in this moment
Watch the fear as
it slides and slithers across the floor
Into the crevices of my mind
It seeks a hold below the radar
of my awareness
Welcomed with open arms
Fully embodied it demands control A Power only I can give it
Moment by moment
The tug-of-war unfolds
Rope frayed and threadbare
Who are we to want more
Who are we to claim space
Who are we to stand tall
Chest forward
Heart wide open is power
A power birthed
of vulnerability
Heart wide open to the fragility
of being human
A fragility that makes us one
Feel the fear
Include the fear
Beyond the fear
Diving through
the blazing hoop of scarcity
I am enough
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