A huge Yellow Butterfly up on the tree
Dances within maple leaf canopy
Neighbor on motorcycle drives by me
His dogs bark as he enters the driveway
Their tone and pitch is just so
That when they bark serially
I cannot bear it
I can only run, cover my ears, hide from it, hold myself
It didn’t used to be this bad
But years of it have my nervous system
Traumatized more than a tad
My body shudders
I hold my face
Breathe, Alicia
Keep dancing
I turn on a song by Mirabai Ceiba. Shavasana. I slow myself through the way I move to her comforting tenor
I’ve already fallen on my face
Well onto my knee and my palm, more precisely
Burned myself on the oven
Concisely
Just after I asked Divine mama for no more drama
I guess her answer is “You didn’t ask for no more incidences”
Do you believe in coincidences?
And after I said fuck you to the stove
I huddled myself until I could compose
And real eyes
It’s just a burn
I can choose where my attention to turn
And I have now
Begun to learn how
I have Received love and healing
Eaten tacos
Remembered old pain that sent me reeling
But whose life am I stealing
If I’m not choosing unconditional love
And authentic healing?
Self-pity
Is fighting with God
After the bargaining phase is over
Before acceptance has set in
Compassion leads the way to never let acceptance
Become resignation
For Compassion
Is of Kwan Yin
When all is Yang and out of Whack
Compassion of Source
Source of Compassion
Spread through all of me
And all that I experience
And hold me effortlessly in your Grace
Holding space
Until my dance
Becomes my authentic phase
Of expression
Aligned to the Divine
As it wants to express through me
Yellow butterfly
I’ll dance with thee
I’ll dance with my feet on Mother Earth
Until there is no Dearth
Of Joy
That honors All
That blesses all life
That moves us beyond co-opted narratives and endless strife
Divine Mother-Father
Source of All
Bless All Creation
Restore us to our
Our Pristine Design
Help us find our flow
So our inner Child can know
That everything is fine
I invite all way win soulutions
To every part of life
And I surrender to Divine Will
And I choose again
To embrace this life
Yellow Butterfly