Wounded Healer

It's only
in the giving
of a grateful
fractured heart..

that joy will come from living,
and sorrows can depart..

for you're 
a wounded healer
whose essence
will transcend..

restoring and renewing
before this journey's end.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Weightless

In this present
moment
I am

weightless.. 

free
from the burden
of anticipation 

unbound
from the chains
of regret.. 

I let
myself be.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Nothing to Say

I've nothing to say;
a hollow voice
meaningless noise

banal and absurd
words words..

Listen to the silence
quietly confess;
within this emptiness
can a child's eye view

be renewed.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Real

Show me
something
real..

a kindness
an innocence
an essence
a hidden depth;
a forbidden
truth
revealed..

please..

show me
something
real.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Centrifuge

I've tumbled through
my centrifuge
again..

you know the one
that separates
good from bad;
bad from good..

if only
I could remember

the code
to unload
the debris.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

It’s Alright

Stop
enjoying the pain..
feeding
this
shadow..

blocking
the light..

let your
ethereal beauty
shine..

it’s all fine

it’s alright..
it’s alright.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Undoing

The undoing..

the phoney
altruism;
the schisms..

the do’s - the don’ts;

the lying
by omission..

the blame - game
shaming
control..

the taming
of our
screaming
souls.

Poem & Painting by Mairi

Whisper

We're tethered
together
here
yet alone, set apart..

I can hear
each heart

whisper..

I'm reaching out
reaching out

touch my soul.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Why

I don't know
why..
birds migrate 

and rivers run
dry..

why fate unfolds
like a story
told..

of rising high; 

falling low 
rising high.. 

I don't know why.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: This Beautiful Abyss

Home Within

A refuge..
where tensions dissolve
truth is spoken
and conflict
resolves..

where wounds heal
harmony returns
and the soul
reveals..

hearth and heart
are akin..

I'm home
within.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Waiting

We weep alone
in silence
with the healing 

wounds
of existence

waiting..

for life's
symmetry
and innocence
to return..

to see the essence...
be the light.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

Perfect Moment

A seed
awaits
the perfect
moment

to emerge..

anticipating
nothing

knowing nothing

not even
that it's waiting.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe

A Pebble

So here I am..

my ragged
edges
made smooth; softened
by life's jagged touch

like a pebble plunged
through the rocky flow..

knowing nothing
for sure

though the water
is pure.

Poem & Painting by Mairi
Excerpt: Poems from the Universe