Illuminate Me
Poem by Wendy Norman (Seafarrwide)
You can cut with your words
Slice me with your knife
Threaten with your presence
Bully with your orders
Shake me with threats
Dampen my mind with despair
But you won’t stop my soul
It lives and breathes within me
Taking note and growing stronger
Draws strength from adversity
Flows with my veins in rivulets
Of gold cleansing the pathways
Washing the tide of pain away
Memories held in vain
Some wont sway are here to stay
The dark buried so deep
Protective forces enable sleep
I am but a carriage the bark of a tree
A pretty picture or not is what you see
Coating my soul with layers to hold
For future stories yet to unfold
You can’t hurt me…
Allison Trentelman Image source @ etsy and featured digital image @ http://www.luminokaya.com