She

poem for a friend

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She is a lucid dreamer

small and lithe

as the cat asleep

on her bed

She is an awakening dancer

She runs until She hurts

She has been broken and will break again

She is a healer looking for a healer

She is fiercely courageous

fiercely loyal and fiercely afraid

She wishes She were beautiful

unaware She already is

She is a scholar and a student

Clad by the wind

She helps the moon

undress among the clouds

She is a shaman

looking for her shaman

She has lived before

and She will live again

You think you have

known her in past lives

and somehow you always

find one another again and again

She is one man’s daughter

some one’s friend

a lover in need of a lover

a wall boxer bursting her hand

11-11-19