[Thespiritexpress] My Poem Read at "Being" Group yesterday

[Jenna McAsey]

Beautiful , Thank you, Toni. 💐
☀️ 💎 ☀️

> On Dec 4, 2024, at 1:56 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Shadow in the Sun
> 
> (written after reading “The Sun” 
>            by David Whyte.
>           “I want to be courageous in my terror.”)
> 
> 
> I’ve stared too long at the sun. 
> Everything forgotten in the burn of retina -
> the shadow of terror rises like noon without prohibition,
> darkens my shape against the pavement,
> I run like a spider
> beneath the foot of fear coming down on me,
> I have no courage in the wake of threats
> to my loved ones, the horrors of war,
> the consequence of deprivation,
> the brutal suffering of unconscious life.
> 
> It is coming for me now, I see it riding 
> the pendulum, swinging its arc over the brick wall,
> having lept the moat and deployed the alarm,
> sneaking through the back door of my pelvis, 
> slinking up the  stairs of my spine,  midnight skull cap
> over its head, 
> long fingers stretching toward my neck, its nails curling into my scalp
> dropping its dark, heavy, coat over my head -
> 
> my knees on ice trembling and bending, 
> begging,  lord have mercy
> it slides it’s bony arm
> around my waist and escorts me to the door.
> 
> And if the hand of God slaps it’s knee again,
> astonished at what we humans believe
> over and over, and if I forget, and slip
> into the swirl of doubt that swallows my mind
> so that the sun goes out,
> and I believe I am separate, 
> helpless and alone
> 
> Then, please, please, let me  
> be courageous in my terror 
> and remember…
> I am not my fear.
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