You Can Fly Again

In the afterbirth you float

just some days past your circle's crossing

again somehow there comes a shadow

upon your golden path much like a child just born

as you yourself were born again today

out of a warm womb's caress into a world

much colder with harsh lights and sharp sounds

Easily it happens to forget the remembering

and here you sit without description

you call to be known and loved

hoping some mother might find arms

to embrace your beating heart

and deliver the prayer's promise you desire

snatching you away from the threatening doom

and delivering you again into the land of kisses

where you belong to your whole self again

So here we are with you who never left

always more than at your side we are within you

woven in some way a thousand time within every strand

and here we stand together all at last forever

if only you can feel the blood that courses

through you heart out to your limbs

you'll feel the raindrops that we are

smothering your fear and animating your sweetest dreams

But here you sit

at the crossroads of your own tender contemplation

only does the sky fall to remind you of your own fear

or sag when your fear calls it to strangle you again

But you can lift

up your eyes and see the truth that shimmers clear

free for the taking as you wander not alone but together as one

But that's the choice to make

and in our prayers you might find hope

and in your hope you might find the way

the way that is yours to have always and forever

just by clicking together your ruby slippers

give yourself permission to be free

you can fly again

in the love

we have

for you

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Watercolor: Steve Hanks