I want to trade comfort for shelter
If it means that embers and stars
Are the nightly companions
That send me into dreaming
I want my body to viscerally know
The contours and scents and rhythms
Of our Wild Mother's body
With the intimacy of any true love
I want to take the blindfolds off my feet
Help my heart taste the sweetness
Of all the sentient hands reaching out
And let Beauty mother me
I want to lose all the clocks
That aren't dialled by the sun
Sway my hips with the cycle of the moon
And honour the cauldron of kairos
Let the true wonder of my Belonging
Be the symphony that ignites me
The lullaby that soothes me
And the light of encouragement to my rose.
The last line here is a reference to Hafiz's beautiful poem The Rose...
How did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All of its beauty?
It felt the warm encouragement of light
Against its being
Otherwise we all remain
Too frightened
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