Fractured Light Ascends

I carry the bruise like a name in my mouth

Old hands guide the fever out Love found me bent where the

hard ground broke Kissed every scar till the silence spoke

Body and mind in a tangled frame

Spirit and thought still calling my name I know the ache that

hides in skin The war outside and the war within Still I

reach for a wiser flame To bless the wound without the shame

When sorrow leans close,

I open the door What hurts me now can heal me more

Between the fear and the sacred breath I learn new life inside

old death

Hold me where the broken shine

Love me through the fault and fire

Heal my flesh, my heart,

my mind Lift my spirit higher

From the ancestors, from the deep

From the tears we never hide Make this hurt and mercy meet

Keep me whole inside

I walk on eggshell ground with a careful grace Reading the truth

in each trembling face

Sexual, mental, emotional seas Intellectual storms brought down to their knees Yet

under the panic a river runs warm Ancient as blood,

steady as a psalm No simple map for the soul to defend

But pain can bend without having to end What no tongue can

name still moves through the bone A medicine older than standing alone

I feel the unseen turning me slow

Teaching the places afraid to let go

Hold me where the broken shine

Love me through the fault and fire

Heal my flesh, my heart,

my mind Lift my spirit higher

From the ancestors, from the deep

From the tears we never hide Make this hurt and mercy meet

Keep me whole inside

I am not lost inside the pain

I am the love that rose again