What keeps you small?
Wherever that shows up
no matter
how minute the issue is —
if you are small in some way
Release it.
It’s time
to step up to the plate
Leave your childhood
protectors behind
Face them
Thank them for having
kept you safe —
Now they are
keeping you small.
Acknowledge
and move on
to the land of big.
You are here to add
to this glorious cosmos
You are here to
open our eyes
to something
we could not see without you.
You have a place
in the stream
You have a place
in the world.
You can’t get there
by being small
and comfortable
and safe.
The big picture
is your birthright
It’s time
to step up
and claim it.
3 comments:
YES!!! Time to live the bigness we are. This Image & poem catch that spirit beautifully.
Nice, especially paired with your Yosemite drawing, Sherrie. Important issue much on my mind, and nowhere brings it to you the way Yosemite does. It's where I fell in love with my husband all over again, the first time we went there in 2001, and I saw him weeping at our first sight of El Capitan. It's how I felt when we hiked up to Mirror Lake last May, and I saw Half Dome from her tip top all the way down to her reflection in Tenaya Creek. It's a place of such big magic. I love how you have expressed this, our childhood protectors (or tormentors!) keeping us small. Food for thought. Thank you.
Thanks Tony and Cari!
Yes, Cari, Yosemite is quite magical, and lucky for us, it's within driving distance. I took a trip there a few years ago with my Tai Chi class. It was amazing doing Tai Chi under the watchful eye of El Capitan.
I think you would get a lot out of the book I am reading which is inspiring many of my poems: Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin. One of the many things he talks about is Childhood Survival Strategies which sometime stick with us longer than needed.
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