It’s not easy
To change a lifetime
Of training
Into a new way
Of being…
To deflect the darts
Of anger or insecurity
Aimed at you
From a place of fear…
Absorbing those injuries
you understand you have to
Feel
To be real again…
It’s not easy
To change a lifetime
Of conditioning
To uncover a fresh
And loving
Heart,
A mind that rejects
Painful judgments of the ego,
An awareness
That denies the appearance
Of strength
By the tearing down
Of another…
It is not easy
Becoming the person
You have always
Hidden…
Even from yourself.
Shelly Aspenson