Peeling away the layers.
Of all that doesn't work.
Of our collective selfishness
and the lack of community it creates.
Peeling away the layers
hurts.
Because I too know
lovelessness.
I too know how to only think of me -
my needs and my wants.
I too know this path of destruction.
Peeling away the layers
is painful because I love you - my mirror; my self.
How can I not choose you?
Yet, unlike the me of yesterday
- after too many years of turbulence -
I no longer have to choose
the road to suffering.
Unlike the me I once was, I now honor my inner knowing,
and the Owl wisdom that has always guided my path,
as I now respond accordingly.
For the new world demands it.
