The Earth Ate Me

After a long period of darkness

Into which I threw myself

Refusing help from "deities"

Who offer comfort and safety,

A delusion on this Earth plane.

Refusing medicating

In favor of healing,

Wishing to heal through

Truth

To heal by

Walking through the "unknown:"

The little-explored darkness

Descending to the middle

Of the Earth and

Through it

I had been anointed

by Gods and Demons

By Animal Spirits

Elementals

Dragons

Angels

I was never alone

Into

Out of

The Darkness

While I felt all the

Horrors I could touch

Of human experience

From being born

To burned to Death

Those horrors cling

As if to say,

"Bring me with you."

I honor them

But they will stay

In the Archives

The Patterns are Dead

I am Alive