Oh, How I Pray

These hovering lows
how does one escape the pull?

Defensiveness a useless tool
I cannot read intentions

I self-animate
a contrived endeavour

Shine reduced
I am humbled
off colour

Grief, on repeat
I want to disappear
like Peter Pan
childlike, armed
with illustrious fantasies

Could this be metamorphosis –

A paralytic calm
a spell-binding ponder
cracking righteousness
till clarity fades the gray

Oh, how I pray it is
the light of love
chiseling a new path

(Inked sketch my own)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

42 thoughts on “Oh, How I Pray”

  3. “Grief, on repeat
    I want to disappear
    like Peter Pan
    childlike, armed
    with illustrious fantasies”

    Gosh. VJ. You put it in a way that is raw, relatable and absolutely devastatingly beautiful ❤️

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  15. Metamorphosis, I never thought to apply that to our own changes…seems like we are often going through this process as part of living. A write to leave us pondering, and I hope your new path emerges soon, thanks VJ.

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  19. I hear your resilience, VJ and vote for metamorphosis.

    Great last lines ” the light of love/chiseling a new path”.

    Hugs, Sarah

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    1. Thanks Sarah. Hope you are keeping warm and safe in this weather. I hear we are in for another bout of snow Tuesday and Wednesday

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