Ironwrath Fury

I leave the porch light off tonight

The wind's been talking too much

Headlines humming in the kitchen

I rinse them off my hands in cold water

Bare feet

on the wood floor Coming back

into my body

I don't answer every ghost that knocks

I don't carry every name they

drop

I learned

to love the sound

of a locked door

I protect my energy like a small lit room

One candle, one bowl,

salt on the sill I say no soft,

I say no true

If it costs my peace,

it costs too much to keep When the world feels haunted,

I keep my light low and steady

Phone face down, kettle on

Let the steam rewrite the air

I breathe in for four,

hold, let go

Let what isn't mine go back where it lives

I water something green

I let something

dead be

dead

I protect my energy like a small lit room

One candle, one bowl,

salt on the sill I say no soft,

I say no true

If it costs my peace,

it costs too much to keep When the world feels haunted,

I keep my light low and steady

I am not a lighthouse for every storm I am not a

blanket for every cold

I am a house with a hearth I choose who sits near

the fire I sweep the corners,

I clear the air I close the curtains,

I say a prayer that is just my own breath I protect

my energy, not because I'm hard But because I'm holy,

and tender, and still here

Low and steady Low and steady

Let the haunted world pass by My light stays low and steady