When I went last year, for the first time, to the RC Healing from War Workshop in Poland, I had no idea how important the discharge and connections would be for me personally. Here is a poem I wrote.
Onward, always,
Gudrun Onkels
Seattle, Washington, USA
what kind of watch
would I have been
another time?
would I have seen
to let my heart,
intact and keen,
courageously
sound life’s love
chime or have
participated
in that crime
or led the way,
without the
price
of compromise,
to save the day
or would I sway,
not holding up,
obediently drink
my cup
of shutting up?
and still now,
as we need to fight
to keep up shining
our light,
no matter the
nightmarish night,
let us remember
what is true,
embracing every human
hue
and bond
with love as our glue
and deal with fright
just as we do
by reaching through.
(Present Time 187, April 2017)