Darkness of Myself // A Poem Video
Updated: Jan 9, 2020
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Darkness of myself
that I’ve forgotten how to love
come forward
so that I may get to know you
let me take the time
let me give it back to you
let us be patient together
and find a way into the
deep disturbance
there let us take care of a fire
and set the stones of darkness
glowing from within
there I want to hold you
cry with you
scream with you
spit venom and thorns with you
shed blood with you and
be broken with you
all that has been hopelessly silenced
in me
I want to dance with you
pray with you
listen with you
remember with you
eat bones with you
smell what is rotting with you
see what is dying and dead with you
let go with you
surrender with you
I want to believe in your existence in me
I want to speak to your existence in me
I want to show my partner
my children
my family
my community
I want to show myself
that I can learn to love you
that I can embrace you in love
that I won’t turn away from
all that is crawling through the
depths and scurrying from the light
all that fears to be seen in me
fears to be rejected
killed
driven into deeper darkness
all that has found comfort or pain
in being forgotten
I am working to remember you
I am working loving you
I am woking
to know that
you are me
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