In another life

In another life

The wings that became clipped

Have taken flight

And I am able to see

The whole magnificent panorama of existence

Stretching out before me

In the place of loss and sadness

There is a river running

Full of hope

In another life

The shame that dogged me

Did not exist

Instead I was a young girl able to see know and embrace

Her gifts

In that life I did not learn to fear

What lives now wrapped up so tightly

In the depths of me

In another life

The pain and trauma I have lived

Does not exist

And yet that ‘other life’ is only an illusion

Maybe my soul is slowly blossoming

Here on the brink of this emerging

Maybe there will come

A time and chance to live my gifts

And free the trapped bird in me

That so sorely aches

To find its wings