Let Me Out

You have chosen
to forget my precious gifts
The force I am

You revel in the spoils
of greed - destroying,
controlling, embedded in fear

You place stock in
objects - not loving touch,
soft kiss, the peace of integrity

You suck, f**k, cum, snore
oblivious to the pain
in your troubled sleep

You think you can ignore me,
lying, cheating, stealing,
from those with less

You believe you can eradicate me
with bombs, grenades,
nuclear explosions

You try to destroy me
by beating, raping, abusing
my physical form

You attempt to banish me with
war cries, religious arguments,
battles over land, oil, diamonds

You create leprosy colonies
for the inconvenient,
old and infirm

I ache for the rivers of blood
swollen in the name of
progress, democracy, securing the future

I cry in silence, my sensual
pleasures frozen in the fear of
your puritan beliefs

You think to express me
makes you weak,
powerless, vulnarable

You refuse to see my
strength, my courage,
my beauty, my light

I long to infuse my tenderness,
honesty and kindness
in all your endeavors

I dream of the day you
set me free - no longer
afraid of losing control

In the darkness you've created
I am on my knees, pleading
LET ME OUT

Let me show you who I am

I am Erishkigal - goddess of the Underworld
Trembling with anger at injustice

I am Kali - goddess of destruction
Waiting patiently to give birth

I am Innana - goddess of wisdom
Standing naked at the gates of hell

I am Kuan Yin - goddess of compassion
Moving silently among you

I am the steady center
within the chaos
of your discord

I am the softness of blue jay
feathers - the bending strength
of bamboo

I am your soul's desires
The energy needed
To express yourSelf

I am the force that
awakens your pain - so
that you may transcend it

I am mixed in the mortar
that binds your perceptions
of reality

I am woven between the
bonds of
human relationship

I am bursting through
the boundaries
of time and space

I will sustain you
without your
knowledge

I will provide you
silent
refuge

I will guard
your
truth

Until you open your heart
Until you let me out

Until you let me explode
the bricks of
your foundation

Shatter the illusion
in which
you live

Settle around you
like gentle
rain

Wrap you in the
blanket of
my love

Until you
remember
that
I
am
you



Copyright 2007 Staci Backauskas