Stream of Thought

The Embrace

Having always been a creature of warmth and love, the chains had become her comfort in absence of company – even as they had ground into her skin and bruised her confidence.

She still could feel the sense of their press, though they’d been broken off and left to moulder those years ago.

She worried that she must be sick to have part of her crave them, because even as they’d limited her, with them she’d grown stronger and had had something to test her will against.

Over time, they had helped provide external boundaries – grounding her consciousness, whereas now her mind could flow freely and absorb too much in any one direction.

Without them, her being craved to find her mate and feel his essence wrap around her and fill her senses to the degree that she began fearing this great love – as if she were a junkie.

Myths & Legends

Guardian

When the man left the woman and their family, how it felt could not be described by journaling or voicing.

It had all been a waste of precious time to try, so instead, she converted to snippets of moments – descriptions of essence.

Included was a picture she drew as a future prospective tatoo to go up her left thoracic spine to over the top of her left shoulder blade.

Guarding the posterior approach to her heart would be the image of a dragon crawling over it to protect while looking backward over its own left shoulder at anyone encroaching.

Stream of Thought

She Couldn’t Say

They’d at last become friends, as his heart had been moved to extend to her this compliment.

As they drove along the countryside, he took her hand in his right, while his left held the wheel.

“Do you really believe those dreams were real?” he asked her.

“You know, I really can’t say, anymore…what I do know is that I no longer want to be chasing my own tail over it.”

She half-chuckled ruefully, feeling fatigued and flustered.

“But one thing I do know is that If my right guy is around, it’s his turn to pull on the oars.”

Stream of Thought

The Carrot’s Stick

The angels knew that she had become fragmented and feared for her very soul. Thus, they sent her images of a lover who’d woo her, recognizing that on her path to find him, they’d have time to help her essence reform.

Was it truth that they had crafted – or a lie as some think would be worthy? She often worried about and pondered this, fearing some snap-back when she’d come to the end of this journey.

Stream of Thought

Catching Up To Myself

I think about this song, “Let’s Go,” and remember the kids and I forging our new path of self reclaiming 2011-2012 while listening to it on the radio, driving along Morro Bay and Cayucos coastlines on Highway 1 during Monarch migrations, and going North along 101 for a concert in San Francisco.

The message then is the same now and I can feel it today, permeating my bones strongly. It feels like nothing has really changed, although much has technically been accomplished. We are just farther along on our journies.