Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Blanket 🛌

✨prayer✨


She no longer chases.

She no longer pleads.

What is meant for her now knows where to find her—

drawn in not by desperation,

but by the quiet pull of her becoming.


She has become magnetic.

Not because she performs,

but because she remembers.

And in that remembering, she hums a frequency

that only the true and the purposeful can hear.


Her love is no small river.

It covers valleys—

a balm over broken things,

a warmth over what others would call “sin.”

She doesn’t flinch at the shattered or the sharp.

She tends, she waters, she prays over cracked soil

until groves bloom where others gave up.


Because that’s what she does—

she blossoms.

Even in places that once burned her.


Forgiveness drips from her like honey—

not cheap, not rushed,

but sacred and overflowing,

handed to her daily

by the gentle, wrinkled hands of Wisdom Herself.


This is her prayer cloth.

At first, it was small—

just a square of whispered hope,

stitched with tiny trembling fingers

in the early hours of grief and aching.


But over the years,

as sorrow deepened and wonder widened,

as losses stretched her

and love mended her,

the cloth grew.

She added to it with every lesson,

every answered prayer,

every child she carried in holy womb,

every time she chose softness over spite.


Now, it’s more than a cloth—

it’s a blanket.

A mantle.

Heavy with memory,

rich with sacred threads—

each one dyed with tears, laughter, moonlight, sunlight, rain and healing mud.


She wraps it around her shoulders each morning.

Not as armor,

but as testimony.


It carries the scent of cedar and patchouli, 

the hush of riverbanks,

and the warmth of a thousand nights

she survived without anyone knowing the full cost.


And every single day,

the Great Spirit whispers the words

of a noble teacher:


Ask, and it will be given to you.

Seek, and you will find.

Knock, and the door will be opened.


So she asks.

She seeks.

She knocks.


And the world unfolds like a grove in spring—

ripe with answers,

soft with mercy,

and alive with things

that were always hers to receive.


Amen.


Smoke and Wool 🐏

✨poem✨


Maybe she looked like just a sheep.

Soft-spoken.

Wide-eyed.

Easily herded.

But beneath that wool was a wild knowing—

ancient as the river,

gentle as moss,

resilient as cypress knees breaking through swamp water.


The fire didn’t alarm her at first.

Not because she didn’t feel it,

but because she’d been taught

that smoke was just part of love.

That confusion was normal.

That losing yourself in the fog

was somehow noble—sacrificial.


But this wasn’t just smoke.

No.

This was wool.

Pulled with careful fingers over her eyes

by someone who needed her blind.

Someone who feared

what she might see

if she ever looked too closely.


They didn’t want her gaze sharp.

They wanted her docile, dazed.

Drunk on the scent of their approval.

Tamed by half-truths

and tender manipulations

masked as protection.


She breathed it in for too long.

Let it wrap around her lungs

like sweet-talk laced in ash.


But something sacred in her stirred—

a deep breath

from the belly of her being.

It said: This isn’t love.

This is camouflage.

This is captivity in cotton disguise.


And when the wool began to smolder—

when the lies finally caught flame

and the whole pasture turned to haze—

they blamed her again.

Called her ungrateful,

rebellious,

unholy.


But she didn’t scream.

Didn’t bleat.

Didn’t trample back into the fog

just to make them feel safe.


She stood.

Eyes burning not from regret,

but from the sudden clarity

of vision restored.


She saw it all.

The way they spun narratives

like yarn.

The way they weaved illusion

into shelter

and called it home.


The wool was never meant to keep her warm.

It was meant to keep her from seeing.


And once she saw,

she couldn’t unsee.

Not even for love.

Not even for the ones

who swore they needed her

but only needed her asleep.


So she stepped out.

Into open air.

Into light so honest

it cracked the last thread of illusion.


And even then—

with eyes full of truth,

and a heart scorched by betrayal—

she blessed them.


With every step away,

she whispered prayers

they’d one day learn to love

without strings.

To need without control.

To tend their own fire

without burning others in the process.


She never hated them.

Not once.

She just loved herself more

than the story they kept her in.


And if they ever wake—

if they ever wonder where she went—

they’ll find her

not angry,

not vengeful,

but free.


Eyes clear.

Wool shed.

Breathing in a truth

no smoke can ever steal again.