Inner Embers

Bonfire - February 2016

So much has been happening within. I tried to express it in the following poem, but I'm not sure there are actually words that can adequately capture these deep shifts. I do know that I am experiencing energy unlike any I've known in the past, while at the very same time I get incredibly tired. And it all feels right.  I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity, or I guess more clearly that I've worked to provide myself with the opportunity, to learn to see the world through my own eyes and experience it with my very own truth.
I post this with so much love in my heart...

Inner Embers

The energy of healing -
powerful, cleansing, hopeful, revealing.
All through the process inner embers
maintain their glow with
the vibrancy of one’s authentic spirit.
Worn out worries often fuel the fire
as past traumas lose traction,
their effects transformed
to further understandings of self.
Sparks curl and reach,
dancing into the ether
carrying angst, suffering, fear
away.
Cinders from the fire
fall into the glowing coals
so that residue left behind
will ignite when the time is right
and inner embers can
shine more brilliantly than
ever before.

Sarah Carlson

March 2, 2016