Healed

About anxieties...

Healed

Let me hold you

rest in these words

for just a moment

and fear nothing.

 

Your heart is wild

I can feel it racing

sensing the urgency

yet you stand frozen.

 

There now

feel the panic slip away

try your once broken wings

a little wobble is normal.

 

You are not meant to be kept

neither are you meant to fly away

you are always within this sanctuary

step forward without fear.

 

Play

Work

Explore

Create

 

Sing your love

for you are not a dumb beast

boldly cry out your truth

bathe in the echo of your voice.

Author's Note

Just a little thought I put together after a lunch time conversation today. I hope it helps.

Reviews

[Southern_Writes]

Very nice piece. To embrace who you truly are and shed off the facades, I feel alot of our anxieties would fade. We could be honestly happy, or not. Love this.

[David Scott]

You are right about anxieties and happiness I think...
Thank you for reading and reviewing.

[Southern_Writes]

You are very welcome

[...]

Very inspiring and warm, dear poet :) I loved reading it

[David Scott]

Thank you. This was written while I was needing spine surgery. I still ended up with a fusion, but I healed my mind long before my body was repaired.

[...]

:) A healthy mind can do miracles

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked the poem. The flow of thoughts took the reader in and held them.
"Sing your love
for you are not a dumb beast
boldly cry out your truth
bathe in the echo of your voice."
The above lines were my favorite. We need to listen to our inner thoughts. Thank you David for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[David Scott]

To live, "healed" rather than out of tune with our energies... This is my hope and commitment to myself and those I share my life with.

[Coyote Poetry]

Hard to do, but we must.

[Alisa Js]

What a clever metaphor for loving and living...

Very well done, you.

Alisa ;-)

[David Scott]

Thank you once again. I will be sure to spend some time on your pages as soon as I can.

[Alisa Js]

Looking forward to reading your thoughts...

[emmajoy]

Healing is never entirely over.. but maybe the memories of how life was given back, how hope re.appeared - teaches a wonderfully wonderful lesson: that being lost in dark shadows isn't the end. To help someone or to be helped, helps make a person find what's been missing - can be anything, everything.

Sorry, too busy spouting off, i failed to comment about the way you've laid thoughts in front of self and reader: gently philosophical, firmly down to earth, ' .. You are not meant to be kept - neither are you meant to fly away .. '

Your words are - individually, simple, but the sum total of them is incredibly moving.

[David Scott]

Thank you Emma. I like reading your gut response more than seeing an analysis of you efforts at creating poetry. Yet, I am thankful for any critique.
No, I agree with you about healing being a constant progression. Still, for myself, I find if I claim the healing I have found I reach new heights more readily. It is much like faith or hope or even love... We must say "I hope, I love, I believe, therefore seek more hope, search deeper the boundaries of love, and know the foundations to build my beliefs upon". This is my exclamation for a friend and myself to say, "I am healed, therefore I will continue to rise above my brokenness".
Or something like that... Ha.
Anyhow, I'm rambling.
Suffice to say, thank you, as always, for your time and your words.

[An owl on the moon]

There are times in all of our lives that we need a certain healing... and it seems you were awakened to the needs of another. May we all find ourselves reaching out to those in need, and healing the hearts of those around us...

[David Scott]

Yes, and these awakenings heal us as well.
Thank you for reading Craig.

[Rob Santana]

I can remember plenty of times where my heart was racing with fear and or anxiety and I was literally frozen in my shoes. It can be difficult when something or someone can suddenly put you in a position where you are stuck with fear. Awesome piece David.

[David Scott]

We understand each other I think Rob. I was reminded this last week of how anxiety can cripple my own mind... All it takes is one phone call...
Yet, I breath, I pray, I dig deep, and I remember how it feels to be "healed".
Sometimes it is just a baby step in the right direction.

[Poetic Beauty]

To me this speaks of someone wild at heart but frozen by anxiety.

[David Scott]

Hello fellow poet. Thank you for the review.

[Confuser]

Now, this is wonderful. Anxiety abounds/probably will always be somewhere in our mind. You're imagery was beautiful. The comfort, the assurance and security given is something we all need and desire. Thank you.

[David Scott]

Thank you for the review. I write this for a friend who had gone through a long recovery and was feeling a return to "normal" may never happen. Sometimes we just need to claim our victories. :)

[Confuser]

No matter how small; well said. Thanks again for the writing.

[KWP]

ahh if it was only that easy to strip away someone's fear and anxiety ...

bathe in the echo of your voice ... oohhh that's nice :) xx

[David Scott]

Thank you for reading.
The poetry is not about someone taking away your anxieties for you...
The healing was and is done... No never perfectly completed, but yes "healed" (past tense).
Thus, the tenderness and comfort is only to support and remind a loved one to claim their power. We all own the real truth in the echo of our own voice singing out and accepting the ability to live whole and healed.
Anyhow... This was my intention. :). Ha.
It really is easier than we make it usually... I know from experience.

[KWP]

i agree I know too ... people learn when they are ready :) x