I walked past

Your right hand held matches

Your left held my shame

Burning down my innocence

You stole this girls bright flame

 

Before it had a chance to fight

And war this heart to free

You woke in me an anger bright

Wrestling against the best of me

Staring at the fire where I watched my heart burn
I recollect the fragments
Held fast within your grip- I let the wind churn
From your hands I beg myself rip
 

How could you steal this life

And burn it to your chest unhidden

For the world to mock my strife

Like a mark embedded within your skin

 

This willowy woman just wants to dance

Stepping lightly among the ashes

Strong enough to take a second glance

I dare to dance this life again

 

Where the wind spoke and stopped my screams

And muted lines- I walked passed you

I reposition now as I step inside my dreams

And learn to love again

 

 

Dear survivor (found inside me),
As a child you saw much pain and violence, darling girl, I ache for you now as I write to the wounds that tried to wreck you. You are within me and you hurt even today. Its okay to cry love. To set yourself free. Trust your instinct to let it out and let it go. Its time to walk again. Out of the past and into now- where dreams lead you to joy. Call out the marks that burned your soul and crown your heart with a beauty pure. Like nothing you have ever seen. Its okay to rise above the flames that licked and tore and seared your childhood and stuck you to your fears. Its time to shed the ashes now and dance over the remains of what once was... Its time to live inside of free and be the best you that you were born to be. I believe in you. I believe the time for loving again has come, and I start within myself. Fly beautiful girl! Sore where the flames cant touch you anymore.
I celebrate that today is forever a new day.
I sing for joy that I am new everyday and today I dare to dream.
I walk this path, I step free.