Alchemise my Pain

We’ve been here before,

You and I, this prison.

Familiar writing on the wall,

Dark tears, night vision.

Ghosts of past hurt,

Exhumed, stripped bare,

Screams gagged, old soil and dirt

Hope is the dream, reality the nightmare.

Medicate, sedate, deny, berate,

The wounded child, quietly crying

A pain ignored, doesn’t shrink, abate

It Magnifies in silence.

But listen beyond the noise,

The still between the words,

Strength, redundant, patience employs,

Resilience shines, no clouds disturb.

You and I, young and old,

Where innocence was, wisdom became

Inner child, my heart, my gold

Alchemy, light work, transmuted our pain.

We‘ve met on this battlefield,

Childhood monsters mask slips

Freed our breath from the umbilicus of shame.

Land of chaos, where peace now sits