emerging

Alone in the crowd

Walls of personal self come crashing down

Pulled out to sea

By the underground tidal swell

Feeling unsteady

Disoriented

And deeply unwell

There is a change going on

Precipitated by the brewing storm

Hold yourself so still

At the center of it all.

Embrace this experience

Of breaking through

Allow the fragmentation you feel

To reveal

Over time

The healing source

Of pain

Otherwise what is the remaining

Choice?

Frozen numbness?

Fearful stagnation?

Lifeless certainty?

Holding everything in and at bay

Thinking you strayed too far from Self

Ever to come home again

Really there is no way

To avoid this journey

Of emerging

Alone in the crowd

Voices of chaos shouting loud

Center within

Drown out the din of liars and lies

Surrender to the flow of your inner tides

Unravel the knots

Uncoil and sink

Shed the garments

Of your former selves

Rise in time

From the ashes

Of your funeral pyre

Cleansed of this overpowering sense

Of being forsaken

To find your feet

Resting upon an unshakable foundation

Trembling in trepidation

As you begin to birth

Through these cataclysms

The radiant power

Or your magnificent self