Profound silence echoing in my soul
-solitude
~Alisa Hutton
solitude
Hear It’s Tap
As I looked to the sky today the clouds seemed to carry depths I do not know
A storm quietly warming a familiar heart ache that arrives from a distant shore
Quiet yourself
Do you hear its tap
Can you feel its pull
Weighted complexity seemed to be grieving in the skies
Equal as they dance and fight
The harsh poetic beauty of the struggles between the darkness and the light
I sat by the river under that sky breathing in the clouds and all that she spoke
In my silence unpredictable currents thrashed me about, swallowing me whole
Today
It was as if the sky was trying to tell me something
All those clouds that seemed to carry depths I do not know
My heart so very grateful of the river today
Reminding me to trust her flow
~Alisa Hutton
Solitude
In our solitude, incredible uninhabited space
That voice that speaks
The only one
We need to listen
Our heart is knowing and has beautiful intuition
Vulnerable chambers will crack open in breathtaking pain
Given fresh perspective, offers of chance to nurture and heal
Echoes of regret and hardship poke at our most vulnerable fears
The choice to show up or run far away
Equally near
Surrounded by those who live by telling us how we should behave
They speak of who we should love and how we should feel
I know only this
Clarity is found deep in me, you and what is real
It may feel uncomfortable, lonely and press on a nerve
Solitude will whisper
The love we deserve
~Alisa Hutton
Shallow Waters
Inhaling sadness
Exhaling only to make room for more
Laying still in her shallow waters
Lapping tides remind her she has felt the wash before
Blinking once
A familiar passerby walks around her, not to lose path of their own linear destination
Blinking twice
A second familiar passerby walks over her, not to interrupt their better path of linear destination
She closes her eyes only to be awoken by those lost on the belief of linear destination
Exhaling she makes room for more
Circular upwards, a lesson we all eventually learn
Like leaves blowing in the wind
She leaves them to lay alone in their destined shallow waters
~Alisa Hutton
