There is a place

there is a place where
> those chains of self sabotage
> and self doubt
> went to die
> they went back to dust
> they decomposed and
> transformed all that was around them
> and now they are only
> a memory.
> there is a place where
> that self love began
> that self protective armor
> yielding when needing to yield
> and covering all the places
> too exposed, too raw,
> too easy to manipulate
> covering and protecting
> all the parts of you
> all the parts of me
> that need cover
> that need it right up against the skin
> right up against the heart
> right up there in the parts of
> you in the parts of me
> that call for help silently
> and ask for stability
> insurance against so much loss
> we get insured by the Spirit

> We get answers from within
We are changing but deathless
Knowing the tides of transformation
Washing over all those parts of self
Needing to be alchemized into
Substances we had not yet imagined