re-member, do not apologize

 

Anger is a teacher,

so let her teach you.

Let her point out all of the places

where you abandoned your sincerity

along the side of the road

simply to appease

someone else -

Where you stopped following

that great arch of your mythic life.

Let her show you where you have 

held yourself silent when the world

needed you to speak:

where your fierce wisdom

was cut off at the knees.

Our shadows have grown so grotesque,

we;ve mistaken them for culture,

but now is the time to re-member

what has been deliberately surppressed;

to prepare a grand feast for all the

ghosts who've been starved by neglect.

Do not apologize when feathers fall

like nighthawks from your fiery eyes.

~ April Tierney

from Memory Keeper