Imbolc

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Imbolc celebrations usually honors the goddess Brigid - a goddess of healing, poetry, and smithcraft. So today's prompt honors her healing nature:

In what ways have you experienced healing over the past year? If you feel so inclined end your response with a short poem about the healing you have experenced.

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[dbmyrrha]

I dumped an almost decade-long toxic relationship, just to discover that I am actually worthy of love. I have found a wonderful man who actually loves me and treats me like a human being, and more, like a queen.

For years, I had been receiving messages that I need to get the clue. Last year at this time I wrote a poem, and that was the beginning of a sea change, wherein I finally did. I finally heeded Her call as I found closure in my old relationship with a giant bonfire.

Burn It Out

You’ve got to burn it out
She said

Outstretched wings of
Black refracting red underbelly

The soot of the forge becomes her;
The heat’s undone her and she’s
Alight

With benign ferocity
This trait she learned at her Mother’s knee.

You have to heat. Temper. Cool.
Burn it out.

For though I heal the wounds, I wield
The maker of the wounds, create
The tool of the wounding.

Don’t stop it up
She said,

I’ve earned every feeling
Every ounce of rage and sorrow
You’re revealing

Don’t cut it off now.
You’ve got to burn it out.

c. 2009 D.B. Myrrha