Your “You-ness”

Breathe, dragon lady
you’re suffocating lately,
Rid your throat of red hot bite,
expel what doesn’t melt on your tongue, what
doesn’t take flight.
Light your own way.
Be your own flame, grind & slay.
Your thoughts are lessons and your
actions are tests.
Close your eyes, feel
your way forward.
Leave any thoughts that are borrowed.
And the undulating picture depends on
your shift, as you
flow and grow. It’s lonely though.
Sometimes dark and slow.
Be gentle and rest in safe places, show all your faces.
Expose your grace, but
don’t hold back, don’t be
afraid of your inky black.
Embrace the magnificence of you.
Let it flow through.
Let everyone know, too ;)
Be in its fullness, your “you”-ness,
It’s genius.

First published in Persephone's Daughters, September 2018