Day 22 of the Soul Card journey
with Elizabeth Crawford of Soul's Music
Soul Cards by Deborah Koff-Chapin at http://www.touchdrawing.com/
It took
Traveler
a long time
to find her voice.
Time after time,
she was silenced,
oppressed,
shouted down,
pressed into
smaller and smaller
confines,
from which she
would eventually
have to
break free,
one after another,
in order to survive.
Each time,
afterwards,
she retreated
into a cocoon
of safety,
to recover
and gain strength,
in order
to continue
traveling.
Finally,
she grew so tired
of this pattern,
that she gave one
loud
last
uncompromising
primal
scream:
"No More!"
After that,
her life
remained
her own.
She journeyed
where she
pleased,
in peace,
unaccompanied
and, thus,
unequivocally
free.
