POEM By Holly Ann Kasper
4/28/2021
Today I play
To You I say
all that I’ve learned;
each blossom yearned.
The roots I drop;
the sun I crave.
The process slow;
I ride the waves.
I feel undone
and yet I see
less of the game
and more of me.
For me,
your dance
is like a mirror;
each turn,
each leap,
and I see clearer.
The ‘shoulds’
‘should-nots’
just melt away.
The glow in me
I ask to stay.
Pen to paper…
my story free.
You see you
and you see me.
Every day
I feel more pain,
and I begin to breathe again.
The pain was hidden.
With patience it grew…
First, gently it knocked…
then rolling through,
the momentum expanded.
The pressure burst forth;
never to be rewound.
When finally freed;
unleashed it broke out.
The relief.
… and the space…
as birds set free,
wounds open wide.
A heat was released;
trapped moments to feel…
My wounds cleaned out;
I began to heal.
My foundation was rocked;
light fell on the lies.
Masked rules tumbled down;
shame melted away.
I cried and I grieved;
I thanked all my tears.
I thanked the pain
I had held all these years.
Because only in healing
that pain
can I grow;
only in feeling
the truth
can I know.
The pain is a friend
to give me my share;
my helping of learning;
my lessons to bare.
my piece of this world…
my human-ness gift,
the ticket to wisdom…
I feel the fear lift.
Today I surrender
because of my pain.
Today I remember
to be-gin
a-gain.
Feel it…
Be Broken…
Surrender
And Grow.
Let go
and find peace
in what you don’t know…