Today I walked an old familiar path through woods I have known since young childhood. Only this time I began where I usually end, and I ended where I usually begin. Everything looked different, altered on the flipside. I came upon unmarked trails leading into mystery–had they been here before? I had lapses of disorientation. Where was I? Do I know this grove of cedars? …this seasonal pond? this patch of horsetail? this steep incline? this creek? I turned in a circle. The path lay quietly behind me and before me. I felt, more than thought, I know this forest, this compacted earth beneath my feet, this April sunlight illuminating trillium and salmonberry blossoms. I know the unseen presences surrounding. I am known here. It occurred to me then, that perhaps I was undoing a spell cast through years of footfalls, or maybe I was weaving a new one–a spell of spring, one of transformation and renewal.
Tag: destiny
In the Eternity of Your Absence
In the eternity of your absence,
I encounter layers of myself.
My divinity, my demon.
My dreams, my desires.
My goddess, my god.
My nature, my essence.
My suffering, my pleasure.
My past, my present, my future.
I encounter the borders and boundaries of me and everything.
In the eternity of your absence,
I learn the contentment of solitude,
and where the edges blur into loneliness.
I hear and see with newfound clarity.
I feel the burning pulse of my longing.
In the eternity of your absence,
I learn that my body
hungers for your body,
while my soul seeks you who sees and feels beyond–
the you who knows your power,
your root of creation,
your divinity and your demon.
In the eternity of your absence,
I admit, it is high time to take off the masks,
to remove the uniforms,
to break the chains of patriarchy.
This undoing of gender is revealing,
we are multi-dimensional star-beings
housed within sensate earth bodies.
In the eternity of your absence,
I know my root of creation–
how it illuminates destiny’s path–
how desire and intuition intersect.
I learn to distinguish the depths,
of my power,
and the purpose of attraction.
Everbearing 