Constellation of stars

Out along the evening horizon

Venus is rising

Accompanied by a constellation of stars

Presently covered over by darkness

Deep inside your soul

A grief and anger is rising

As the masks that hide the truth

Dissolve

As you feel and see and know

The tangled ways of men

Trauma makes a difficult bedfellow

That binds us up within the wounds of those

We did not know

But feel

Living out the echoes of old arguments

The soul then lies in chains

While somewhere deep inside

We continue to faintly remember

Our original nature

Dreaming of the star stuff

From which we are made

You salvation depends upon this

Re membering

Bringing together the torn about fragments

That cast you into the abyss of Hades

Where you met the maw of

The devil of

Dys

Disease

Dissociation

Dysfunction

Disaster

(which literally means to be separated from the stars)

And yet a golden flame still burns brightly within you

As the base of all they consigned you to reject

So center yourself within it

Breathe in its power

As you set you sight and soul upon

The truth that lies hidden

In darkening depths

Of hell

And find there

With each brave attempt

At every fearsome descent

The true original pattern

Of that miraculous

Constellation

Of stars