Tag: descent

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  Her whole life before her
  She takes one step,
  And then another,
  Into the wilderness of her own mind

  Feeding herself on words
  Which fall like manna from the sky,
  Deepening into her descent
  Until the blackness swallows her whole

  And on the other side
  She finds the peace she’d not dared to seek
  Peeking out from behind every obstacle,
  Offering its battered hand

  I’m home, she thinks
  And even in her solace, she knows better
  She can’t hide here forever
  She has to learn to bring peace back home

  ©SpiritLed 2020

  Photo by Sašo Tušar on Unsplash

  March 22, 2020

  descent, hide, home, peace, words

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• Not this Night

  

  Standing at the edge
  I see not the whole world before me,
  But rather the place of my descent,
  Where I must go and face the darkness
  Which whispers in my solitude, my safety,
  “I still own you

  And though I tell it “No,”
  It lingers,
  A blotchy reminder of its power
  To keep me in fear of my own light

  But this time,
  This fight,
  I whisper back softly,
  “Not this night…”

  ©SpiritLed 2019

  June 16, 2019

  darkness, descent, fear, fight, light, night, power, safety, solitude

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