A Poem for Staff Pose
"Some of us have covered our hearts with our shoulders or have locked our pelvis in layers of loss—" from Staff Pose by Corie Feiner
Around the time I set out to write a poem for staff pose, I was journaling a lot on wanting to be stronger. Not just physically, but mentally. I had often thought of myself as lost, even when I had everything I needed — food, shelter, friends, family… and I was lost, but not in the way that I had thought.
This unsettling feeling that I associated with being lost was from my refusal to travel on the uncharted terrain of my innermost self and the task before me required me to embrace every part of me I had disowned, discarded and ignored.
I realized that this journey required a strength beyond my muscles. It would require a strong spine, a solid core, and a physical and metaphorical staff that could hold me when I wanted to falter and fall.
I trust now that I have never been alone on this or any other journey. And I that am not alone now. And neither are you.