On the brink

On the brink of freedom

You pause

While inside your heart

A restless anxiety

Stamps its frantic hoofbeats

Inside your breast

Is there a trepidation that comes

From being alone

Completely supporting yourself

When so many people say connection

Is the only true healing

Well what about connection with ourselves?

And what of the courage it takes

To face authentic aloneness

To seek true spiritual empowerment?

There is a deep place we go to

Where we have to meet

So many aspects of our hidden selves

And at times we falter

Before the mirrors

Even as they shatter

Into splintered fragments

Then there is the inward seeing

That rests upon

The heart having fully opened itself

And this takes courage

So much courage

To face the dark

And not remain completely paralysed

In fear

A courage so many

Fear to ever speak of

Let alone

Embrace