A travesty

Dizzy with the happiness I feel

Bubbling away inside of me

Knowing how precious this gift

You give so freely to me feels

Permission to come fully alive

Free of censure, judgement or shame

Helping me to see

How eclipsed I was by pain

By the tightly bound

Reigned in prohibitions of others

That cut me off from life

And sometimes it feels

That the terror and the life

Well really they are just

The two sides of one energy

That aches so strong with the force

Of being stopped

From flowing forth

While feeling that if it does

Something horrendous

Will come to cut me down

In the prime of life

What is it that we are suffering now

Centuries and centuries of programming

Binding our souls up in knots

Consigning our tender

Heart, feelings and bodies

To the deep freeze

Drawing a gorgon’s the mask of fear

Over the naked edge

Of life’s raw unpredictability

How anxiously

Our souls mark time

Longing for us to feel

Free to express

Wild and real

Burying nothing more in shame

Fearing no longer

What is hidden in the shadows

Or blown apart

By the wind and rain of change

Or burnt to ashes by the fires

Of our hearts invisible longings

So long ago consigned

By this mistaken world

To a death like place

Of mixed up

Confusion

A travesty