Blocked & Poisoned (January 19, 2020)

H-2-O

Most precious gift:

Water.

Without which

No life can exist

On this planet.

Tainting it

Through our averse

And greedy ways

Culling countless species

With wanton waste.

Killing powerful rivers

Like the Colorado

Into muddy streams.

Failing

To reach oceans

With dams

And other needs.

As the environment

Collapses

Upon itself.

Therisa © 2020 

Becoming Water (April 20, 2019)

The transition

From a solid

To a fluid.

Healing chemistry

Of a holistic nature.

Regaining flexibility

So long lost

In pain and suffering

Of another lifetime.

Where rigidity is

An armoured shell

Protecting me

From your blows.

Now

A liability

That hinders

My healing process.

As I seek

To move forward

Reclaiming the past

For myself.

Like a gentle stream

That becomes

A fast raging river

Carving its pathway

Through the valley floor.

Displaying

True inner strength

So often

Hidden away

From plain sight.

Flow grows

Increasingly muddier

With my past debris

Stripping away.

A process

That can takes years

If not longer

Before completion.

If

At all.

First step

Is remembering

Being gentle

To oneself.

Isn’t a sign

Of inner weakness.

Rather

An awareness

Of the harmony

That nourishes life.

Enabling me

To move

At my own pace

As I embrace

My new self.

Therisa © 2019

Author’s note: The title and inspiration for this poem, comes from a children book, explaining, how melting glaciers become water, at my local library.