Some thoughts for all the people across the world who are in pain…
The forces beyond our control
Push us
Push us
Relentless
Toss us around
Lift our feet off the ground
Till we land in a new dimension that bears no relation to Kansas
And we
Caught up in a sea of emotions
Trapped in the eddies of disturbed space time
Knowing nothing more than our broken heartedness
Our brokenness
And what can we do but sit among the shattered pieces of life we thought we knew
That life
The one we had in the past we can but grieve it
And grieve it we must
Honour it as a testament that can never be taken from us – but remains ours eternally
And what of our dreams and foolish fantasies of the life we thought we’d have
We ought to have
The way things would have been
Should have been
Could have been
Only now can never be
And so like a Phoenix we rise
Out of the broken bits of ourselves
And hold each piece up to the light until they begin to glow with an as yet unseen light
A light that connects the remembered past with the unknown future through the prism of now
And as you look into the light you see in yourself a strength you never knew you had.
And a world that needs you more than ever.
