Deep cleansing breaths – ego gone
Still it lingers, the unkindness
You subjected yourself to
To push fear out
Where there was no home,
No way of orphaning your creation.
Still we are believers – in what we know
Despite frequent reminders – we don’t know.
It’s stunning, really, how much trauma we
Carry with us to the gym
As we clamp weights down
On shouldering skin.
