joy

Find the things you love

The ones that joy brings

Lighting you up from within

Making your body sing

The pain and pressure of being squeezed

So far down below

May seem painful

But don’t you know

When you submit your soul

Fully to that fire

To the rage and hurt and pain

And fathom’s deep ire

You will be transformed

Within the blaze

If you allow it to burn clean

And clear you gaze

Eclipsed by all the shame

You carried for generations

All in vain

So rise rise rise

Within the flames

Allow the heat to show you what was stolen

And what you must reclaim

In order to find your hidden spark

Your lost joy

And your authenticity again

For don’t you know

Diamonds are formed

Under pressure

And joy is birthed from pain

If we can follow the hurt back

To its source

And find the courage to live

True to our soul again.