Allowing

I will breathe deeply in

Knowing it is safe to be

And also accepting every single feeling

That opens its truth to me

From deep within

My heart

There was a way that I so sadly became

An enemy to myself

And then

It was

I lost the way

To self love

Now I do cry some days

With this understanding

That is

Oh so slowly emerging

That the inner critic not only savaged me

But at times found it hard to love

Certain human beings

But then again

I needed my kin

And there was a deep deep sadness

For so many years

When I felt so much like a stranger

Felt such deep pain

For not being accepted

Or fitting in

God knows life is not perfect

So full of wounds at times

We feel as if we are walking

With barefeet

On shattered glass

But then the day comes

When an allowing shows us

Gifts our mind obscured

Then it is we can turn at last

Contentedly inwards

And allow ourselves

A way to know the truth

Of all we longed for

Suffered for

Or felt mistakenly as if we had

Lost the way to

Because on that day

Finally acceptance opens us up

To this

The most precious gift

Of simply allowing ourselves

To be

Alive

Unfettered

And free