Move open embrace

Trauma steals so much

Making us contracted, hypervigilant and frozen

Meanwhile a sense of fully engaged vibrant life

Passes us by

And fills us with fear

As inwardly we silently grieve

For a way of living we only sensed

But never really knew

And yet the longing is still there

Buried underneath

With desires to be curious

To move

To open

And to embrace

But trapped endlessly

Within our prison of ‘safe’ space

How can we be open

To the new

How can we feel free and safe to move

How can we risk the chance to embrace

Only through an expansion

Moving out of

Of contractions

And sometimes by

The deepest fall into a grieving

For what we only sensed

But became over time

Through the hurt of trauma

Seemingly impossible

To move towards

To open to

And to embrace