that tips the balance
from complacency to action
and wakes us up?
[...]

In the current of life
there’s no such thing as change,
only flow and the present moment.
[...]

The scared child parts
huddle
in their trauma bubble.
[...]

Each week, day, hour
Triggers something new.
The weight
Of holding others’ wellbeing
In the choices I make.
[...]

I’m in the chrysalis of change,
Hanging in the bardo
Between then and now,
My caterpillar parts
[...]

My anger is my power gone awry

It is my aborted fight response
asking for a replay,
it is my soul’s foray
out of freeze mode
[...]

I was taught
to trust only what I see.
All else is illusory.
[...]

Loose ligaments,
free-floating bones,
joints sliding out of place
at the slightest movement. [...]

is the breadth of a butterfly wing.
As close as a single breath,
halting, hovering, hailing
me into presence.
[...]

keeper of memories
purveyor of dreams
mouthpiece for source
[...]