Ahoy there! I have a story to share…join me if you dare.
Over these first few weeks of 2017 I experienced two things that could have turned out rather ‘badly’ to say the least. Both turned out unexpectedly well instead….and it feels important to share my experience in poetic form with you all. I suspect I’m not the only one having shifts in my perception of reality.
I fell down a flight of stairs unexpectedly and then a few weeks later I was walking across the street with my dear friend and we were both hit by a car and tumbled like rag dolls onto the pavement on our way to a cafe. Now I must say that I am not accident prone, in fact I have never broken a bone in my body and rarely trip on anything. Needless to say, both incidents opened me up in ways I wasn’t expecting….and have inspired me to write some verse about it…
down the stairs I went
all frolic and sock feet
a tea cup in both hands
nothing to it
then it happened
I felt the slip
the mugs went flying
and there I was lying
somewhere down there
much quicker than expected
with a spine that felt ejected
out of it’s normal mode
a reset button hit
shaken up to the n-th degree
yes
perhaps a new north was inserted
and some internal junk deserted
I can’t explain it
how the pain made way for
my frayed bits to be re-woven
into new human code
that is ready to be spoken
as a new way of be-ing here
unbroken…
Walking together
easy like
coming from the range
feeling confident
and happy
heading for a cafe across the street
‘let’s use the crosswalk, cause we are on our feet’
okay, here we go
NEXT thing wE KnoW
WE aRe BoTH AiR borN
tumbling down from car hood to ground
no time to make sense
just time to realize we are both
not where expected
this is where there is too much to share
are we dead? no…
good…
police, bystanders, kindness, fire men like redwood trees come with blankets
hospital bound
my friend and I go
no insurance for me
just heavy assistance from all sides
seen and unseen
my friend holds the earth, brave light that she is
and took the brunt of the hood without a defense to give
I hold the air, rolling magic and saying prayer
the fire and water between us
creates an ether we can share
I can’t explain this fall
why it happened at all
I should be frayed and undone
instead I just want to live brighter
never hold back
perhaps I am a fighter
with nothing to prove but a lot to make lighter
it’s odd to feel so fragile and so bold
can’t explain it
it just has to be told…
May we all live deep within the goodness of life and when things happen that shake us, may they hone and shine us even brighter…like the gem stones we are!