The Healing Time by Pesha Gertler
Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that sent me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say Holy Holy
Blessings!
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Yesterday was another milestone day. I did not realize until I returned home in the evening why I felt the stirrings that the Fall season evoked in my past lifetime. It was a perfectly beautiful day. Sunny, crisply defined, fiery orange maple leaves against a clear blue sky, no clouds in sight. I simply went shopping, by myself, at a time of my choosing and where I wanted to go for the first time in four years...Christmas shopping. Wow! The last time I was able to do this was in early December 2005, and that was pretty limited as I prepared for a job change. I liked feeling happy and relaxed...able to take in the beauty of a wonderful Fall day and the taste of independence lost, as I moved through the day, moment by moment, enjoying each encounter as though it was a re-acquaintance with a dearly missed old friend.
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