Power Alchemy: When you lock up your truth…

I felt like I was drowning in the sea

Where my truth stayed chained up

Like a lost treasure chest

I thought the right answer was to let it all go,

To let go of what made my heart race,

For a small grain of relief

But the tides grew more intense,

And the boat I thought would protect me,

Sent me back into the sea,

A memory so vivid

It happened every night

The trauma cloaked in darkness,

Elicited uncomfort

To the point where burning down

The abandonment of the self

Was the only way to see

Through the fog,

There was no soft nudge

It felt like a lightning bolt

Surging me awake,

And I started to see that the truth

Was my eternal fire

And yet it’s also a well of overflowing water

That’s been overlooked

For centuries