Shared Spirit
I see you
Ablaze with light
Joyfully sharing your fire
With us
To reflect, refract, and multiply
Endlessly outward
Enjoy each gift
That spirit offers
As she enjoys those
That you share
Unstintingly,
With us all.
Behind us, I see
Our mothers, and their mothers
Each, in turn,
Holding space, like you
For our becoming
More ourselves
More one.
12.11.2023
This is the first of the poems I wrote as part of my EEM journey. I composed it mostly in the car, on my drive back from EEM Fundamentals Class 3, in Scotland. Over the last four years, November has been a time when I have been more aware of my grief for the loss of my mother, but unable to reconcile myself with it. Class 3 was a bit of breakthrough, in this area, and I am very grateful for the support of my teacher and fellow students with accepting and healing a piece of that grief. Healing is so much more accessible when we are in community, than when we are alone.