Knight Shedding Armor

This is new

Something each rebirth ensues

But I like this bruise

Stale blood under breast plate

I see how far I’ve came

What I thought made me weak gave me strength

The hits I’ve had to take

I appreciate

Each skin scrape

Heartache

Times I swear bone breaks

Tethers go so I can elevate.

Greater forces than gravity

Pick apart positive energy.

Most often, given willingly

Sacrificing the whole of me

Synonymous to bleeding

It’s when resources recede

Merely a shell of an empty seed

Quiet & complacency cease,

“How could this happen to me?”

My sweet,

It’s no one else, you see

People are simpler than they seem

How you allow, they treat.

You dictate what behaviors they bring.

You can choose to stay

Or release.

Return to source

Initiate discourse

Honor that tiny, unspoken voice

Gone ignored

Caused joy a voided course

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Realign. For you were meant for more

Take present to explore

Silent, deafening noise

Shame, remorse

Hate, disdain, what you guilt to crave,

Where you begged another to reciprocate

Parts kept contained

Enclosed in clouded gates.

Emancipate!

The key to your ball & chain

In the hands of others? Refrain,

This is giving your power away.

Pride serves to protect

Rage is borne from neglect

Intuition notices what reason fails to detect

Now, fear shrouds your head.

Sadness indicates emotions un-wept,

Doubt whispers what you should do instead

AFTER so many dreams lay dead.

What we try to hide

Festers, fragile little lies,

Lurks in your gait, your smile

Decay starts from the inside.

Life is ocean-wide

It’s futile to resist the tide

But will you reach the surface in time

Gripping an anchor, down for the ride,

Cueing the world to echo your goodbye?

More than yes. Only if you try

Let ugly tears roll and cry

Sooner than later, you’ll be alright.

In fact, pleasantly fine

Shadow work is a grind,

Yet the most blatant color of kind

Lest,

You don’t let what needs to, die.

Scared, swallowing water

Grip and faith falter

Let me tell you something, I’ll level

You are never alone, at every depth

Micro & macro draw breath

Not every presence is felt.

Call on courage, send for help

It’s ironic, but don’t contest

What drove you out of Hell,

For otherwise

You would’ve never left.

How else could you have learned

What does and doesn’t serve?

Behind each door of hurt

A familiar hearth burns

An invitation to nurse.

You are not cursed.

In this story, the dragon is tame

You have gone out of your way,

However, not in vain.

There is another objective to obtain

This ancient fable changed

The dragon is not who they say.

A gentle creature, older than age

Before a humble and regal lair,

Beckoned ‘come closer’ and solemnly spake,

“From experience, wisdom precipitates.

In stillness, clarity illuminates.

To heal, you must initiate

Breakdown & peril, this you praise,

For you begin to isolate

Into bliss and calmer states.

The road to happiness is paved

In simple pleasures, child’s play.

It’s okay. Frustrate.

In fact, it’s how you move through pain,

But only somewhere safe.

Because what you need to slay

Isn’t on the physical plane.

To be here, where you are, is brave

Rest is the reward you’ve gained.

Resist belief any journey is waste

For it brought you today.

Recognize— what you give is what’s relayed

Not so much words, hey,

It’s the believing you’ll be repaid.

Lessons will circle and churn,

If the lesson goes unheard

The lesson returns.

You are what stops the replay.”

Most important, the last thing They said,

“Each being at their own stage,

Yet we are all the same.

Each struggling to find their place

All win, and all fail,

To remember it’s right in the center-space.

For the meaning of life is not to conquer, it is to save.”