Unfurling
I learned to lower my light
and dim my brilliance for those
around me to be able to love me,
and yet their love was stuck
in the liminal and found to be fickle
bounding my beauty,
breaking my boundaries and
shattering my heart.
and those scars and cracks
are the very place where
now my
brilliance is brimming out
my light flooding through
because I am no longer trading
human love for smallness
but sticking to my prowl,
I a majestic lion, becoming,
my glorious mane bellowing,
singing and seeking sacred love and
its greatness with my unfurling.
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