Mitzrayim

(her own personal cairo)
im sitting next to my pen trying to avoid looking at the paper
im scared of scribbling words ive written too many times

i dont want them to taunt me anymore
i want them out, so instead ill just drive over

ive come to reannoint you
and wish you luck
a symbolic annointment
as you are embarking on a symbolic journey
be it to damascus or aleppo
or even west and home
before you do though, make peace with this kind land
this land like any good mother can be at times cruel and mean
but above all kind at heart and caring
this is where God chose to annoint the earth
so dont let the wrong doings of a few of its pharoahs
ruin its truth......... its essence
so make peace with it and forgive it
as it has forgiven and welcomed many before you
only then will you really be able to find
the stillness and quietude you crave
peace

"If we wish to be freed from our own personal “mitzrayim“, our own narrow place, our own internalized slavery, we must connect with the place within us that is willing and ready to go free. We must grow and nurture that part of ourselves, and not the quality of disconnection and cynicism."