Pesha Gertler: The Healing Time

I found this beautiful poem in Francis Weller's powerful book The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief (http://www.wisdombridge.net/the-wild-edge-of-sorrow.html). Heartfelt blessings to us all as we embrace our individual and collective healing and awakening and courageously open our hearts and say YES. ❤ Molly

The Healing Time

 Finally on my way to yes
I bump into
all the places
where I said no
to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one
close to my heart
and I say       holy
        holy.

— Pesha Gertler