Where is She?

by Judith Michaels Safford

 

Where is she

The one who longs to be

Not the one who lingers Lost

in

 memory

Those Years

of

unyielding suffering

 

The soul longs for her

To persevere on the train

That never seems to have an end

Or a friend

To wipe her years of tears

That had to be

 

We spoke within her dreams of peace

We whispered in the flower beds

In rich black earth

Mother earth

That held her birth of softening

Row by row we helped her grow

Like a newborn

weeping willow bending to the ground so low

And stands upright again and again

stronger, longer,

 kinder, softer

with

compassion rising from the

deeper well

 

Where is she, now?

The one who longs to be

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Judith Michaels Safford lives in Glenwood, NM. She migrated from Indiana to Denver in 1989 and landed in New Mexico in 1998, for keeps. She is a retired massage therapist. Just recently she was blessed with her twentieth Great Grandchild.

Don’t Sell Your Soul - Memoir of a Guru Junkie and a book of poems, Joyful Surrender – A Pilgrimage are her two self-published books. Many of her poems express learning how mistakes lead to growth. She writes about walking through the tough parts of life and finding joy and discovering what really matters.