Tanya Keenan
Take Me Under
You called me
So gently at first
But with increasing urgency,
Warning me that change was coming.
You tried seduction first
Enticing me to look in
Look down
Look deep
But I was dancing in sunlight
Oblivious to the chasm opening in the earth
In frustration
You took me by force
Hijacking my life,
Bringing me into darkness.
Invisible Soul-tender,
You see me truly,
With the clarity of death.
You envelop me
Hold my eyes open
To the mirror
Knowing it hurts
Knowing it will hurt more
------If I don’t.
In tenderness,
You guide me through your heaving chasms,
Your cavernous hall,
Your labrynthine mysteries,
To the bed of dreams and dark knowing.
You guide me into yourself
And back through into the kernel of myself.
You feed me crimson seeds,
Juice trickling down my throat.
You show me my own power,
Hidden in my depths,
A crown I wear in the dark.
And in the stillness of that knowing,
Sleeping in your dream
Coming to rest
At last
In your embrace,
My tender soul comes to life again,
Trembling in excitement
For the journey into spring.
I cannot transform without you,
Dreamer in the Dark.
As soon as sunlight caresses my skin,
I am already longing for the return
To Underworld ecstacies,
That center point
Where Life and Death meet
For one brief bright dark insane holy sweet despairing
dripping moment,
When, held lovingly by you,
I take my first breath
As a new being.
© Copyright 2010 Tanya Keenan