We are Free to Love

We are Free to Love.

It is a challenge when we are in pain. 

For our mind will want to focus on that pain. 

The pain can take many forms. Inside our body and outside. 

Fighting against the pain will only build walls and secure the pain remains. 

We can keep raising the height of those walls. 

Put barbed wire cameras and a sign that says 'Do not enter for fear of death'. 

Place traps and lay bombs. 

But the pain remains silenced hidden.

This is where we are individually and collectively. 

As each of us dare to take down those walls. 

Dare to question the sign screaming do not to enter. 

And we find that which was shamed blamed and silenced. 

Whimpering inside the darkness. 

We dare to come closer for we cannot see 

what shape form is this beast inside. 

We dare to feel the fear inside. 

Until we see behind the eyes reflected tears. 

And those tears we realise are our own. 

And the beast a wild thing crawls into our arms. 

We see the thorn buried deep in the paw. 

The skin hardened around the sharpness. 

And we say softly that this may hurt 

And to be brave for we are now held safe. 

We remove the thorn and the wound heals. No longer are we in pain. 

And the tears that were filled with fear loneliness grief flow with happiness.

Light floods inside as the walls signs traps bombs dissolve. 

We see the beauty of this beast this wildness inside. 

We are Free. 

We are Free to Love.

Words by Zahara Celestial

Image by Furry Little Peach