Her Knowing

Hidden beyond the river of glass that pours from her eyes
And the debris of ashes swept daily from her heart
And the poisonous vines entangled in her mind
Lies the brave woman
The fierce woman
The wild woman
The joyful woman
The Uninhibited woman
The free woman
The powerful woman
Who knows 
Secretly
In her all too familiar lonely world there is the faintest smile of knowing
That amidst the insanity and the pain and the fear and the grotesque 
That her job is to rise
Then stand raw and open in front of you and share the truth until you remember 
Until you know
Until you rise
Until you shake and shake and shake off the weight and the dense and the chains until you drop from exhaustion
When it is finished
When the body has finally calmed
There she is
There they all are
Unafraid
Smiling
Knowing
Brave
Expanded
Free

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