Dancing With The Flowers

When the birds sing

and flowers bring

colour to brighten you

then I too feel like dancing.

With welcome grace

a space appears

so I burst forth with joyful moves

twirling like tea-tree petals

one-two-three-four-five

I am feeling more alive

the birds whistle while I glide.

I began expanding,

rotating round the room

then following through

to the garden place

where Red Grevillea was calling me,

enticing another leap ahead

to choose a life of joy instead

of more wondering.

So Now with clarity I fly freely.

 

- o O o -

We Never Knew

Too far away

I cannot go home

I am not alone.

Eleven pm

The owl sounds.

It hoots

through the still dark night

it knows

you have gone from sight

but what I know and what I hear

is sounding strong and oh so clear

how we have healed 

our deepest pain

trauma rises to light the way

and now I know

and now I say

'Run away, run away".

It's not my fault, or yours, or hers.

It came from the 'homeland' 

across the seas

translating through so I heal you

from here on Earth

and you and her will feel relieved

that now we know deep within,

'they took our choices away'. 

I have no choices

I have no say,

my choices were taken away,

your choices were taken away,

her choices were taken away

and to this day

our cells held the trauma of it all,

deep inside we all did hide,

so Now this very night

has set generations free,

my Nanna, my mother and me.