Inside Outside

Evaluation

Power says, unacceptable.
Heart says, what?

Opening oneself, to?

Are you struggling, power asks?
Heart responds, Can I hear you through the fog and confusion?

Power says, errors cost time and money.
Heart responds, incorrect.

Power holds on with an ever tightening grasp (Fingers clenched so tight the nails press into skin/leave marks/bleed)
Heart knows there will be no reigning in.
How can there be management?

Power authorizes legitimacy.
Heart responds, I hear the beating, this is enough.

Power feels it’s insistence failing. Unraveling.
Heart feels itself opening to the unknown. Fearless.

Power falls in on itself, no longer able to authorize, even
its own existence.

Powerless, authority discontinues its evaluation.
Heart, broken open, unbounded freedom.

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Terry Tempest Williams, in her stunning, “When Women Were Birds”, asks these things:

“Can you be inside and outside at the same time?
I think this is where I live.
I think this is where most women live.
I know this is where writer’s live.
Inside to write.
Outside to glean.”

Myotai continues to ask, same here, same there?