Inner Sanctum

 

Get this right

Out of rivers

Streams are born

Lakes are formed

As the earth is drenched in rain

Beauty comes from pain

A dove flies over barren lands

But I see growth in dry things

It amazing what can survive a drought

Desert lands love desert sands

And I pant for water

Cottonmouth

I talk

While tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth

Metamorphosis begins

I feel every cell in me shape and bend

I am different again

Seeing me as if for the first time

Pinching myself to make sure I am

Love and I become so much as one

I see in me the beauty I had been reaching for

Knocking on many doors

But I couldn't get in

Peeking through the cracks

My foot crushed

As I begged to be seen

As I begged to be felt

Touch me in here

I pointed beyond this useless flesh

To the heart matter of my being

A mind that needed to be challenged

A soul that needed to be stroked

But the door just kept closing

And a pseudo ego broke

Till walls and barbed wire

Threatened to take me and others out

There was no light

Because the windows were boarded shut

I couldn't breathe

Suffocated by fear and dismal prospects

I accidentally cocooned myself

Morphing into something else

Love and I became one

Beauty came from pain

I came across what I had been needing

In an Inner Sanctum moment

Reviews

[Barbara Walker]

Very descriptive, a poem that is a testament for loving oneself first, before we can love others! But said in a very special, unique way! great read! Barbara

[R J Askew]

Are these the key lines...

A mind that needed to be challenged
A soul that needed to be stroked

...So the creativity was all walled up, but has now found it's way out? Again this is sustained, confident and I think would be uplifting to hear read out.

[STurner]

Yes, YES, YESSSSS! Exactly. Absolutely. Love and I became one/ Beauty came from pain/ I came across what I had been needing/ In an Inner Sanctum moment. If you were a pinball machine, you just tilted. Congratulations. Everything we will ever need is within us. Every answer to every question we could ever ask, is within us. See what I see in you, know what I would beg you to know and you'll never be broken again. This is really great and I do mean GREAT stuff.