waking
i show up
as my true self
i remember the story i wanted to hear
as a distant echo reverberating
into an ever receding past
i arm myself with self-awareness
and prepare to do battle
with lurking limiting beliefs
and skulking constraints
a well of emotions rises up from the underbrush
but i am ready
i command it to stop
with a swoosh of my weapons through the air
frozen
triggered by this global trauma
my life is on pause
within a blame-exclusion zone
while i remake it
i build my courage to cut though the veils of illusion
and i open my vast empty radiant heart
it will hold compassion
no matter what truth I see in my life
- self-honesty, self-acceptance