Alchemic Verse

Unclasp borrowed burden
Release shame’s leaden cloak
Wasn’t yours to carry
Its weight that nearly broke

Your back to curl tightly
Traps hardened taut with dread
Strapping skull to shoulders
Posed stiff to stare ahead

Disrupt dark disorder
Let fall before the dead

Undress under starlight
Cool air to bring release
Prickle each pore alive
Bathe burden with belief

Your back unfurls slowly
Shoulders lower to spine
Til head can turn and see
The whole picture this time

Better broken to be
Than to never have tried

Align body gently
Accept each wish misplaced
All worn on open sleeve
Move on while keeping faith

Forgiving so freely
Others’ mistaken moves
So just as completely
Forgive yourself then too

Deliver discretely
Self-salvation with truth

Steady stand strong and tall
When you’ve rested enough
It was normal to fall
You always get back up

Behold living temple
Your heart now lives aligned
Loving both dark and light
To yourself being kind

Become bold being bright
Mother’s might make me mine