we are all broken
each one of us
not just those who so generously
let us let it witness it,
but every human being
tied to her human family
with the pain, strife, war and famine
that have lived before us
and so live IN us also
we are here
to learn to live in the unique joy
and the excruciating pain
of our humanity
we are here to acknowledge
our vulnerabilities,
to encounter
our shadows
we are here to be humbled
by the depth of our ancestral pain,
to walk into our shadowlands
accompanied by
the compassionate witness
who waits and watches
and comforts,
who knows
that this baptism of fire
is the first step
towards our next evolution.
we have survived
that is true
but now we must learn to heal,
to spend time
giving to our ancestors
that compassion
which they didn't
have the luxury
to gift themselves.
we must make room for each other's suffering
we must not look away from each other's agony
or hide from our own.
we are survivors,
but that which we ignored
in order to move forward
must now be brought
tenderly
into the light.
only the strong have survived
and so we are terrified
of our weaknesses
our damage
our despair
our defeat
our sensitivity
our hearts
broken beyond repair
but these precious defeats
live inside us
alongside our stories
of survival,
they are silenced.
so that the strong
can continue to inherit our earth
these rejects
ignored and shunned,
hold knowledge
we can no longer
afford to do without
they call out from within us,
they are desperate,
sending the best of us
to graves dug by our very own hands
these untouchables
connect us
with the ground beneath of feet
teach us the necessity of humility,
open doors
that have been locked
for the millennium.
they wait to guide us
gently
back
to our wholeness
both the darkness and the light
acknowledged at last.
our brokenness
is our way forward,
may we embrace it
may we acknowledge it
may we make room
for our greatest teacher.
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