Sit With It
Terry Tischmak
January 29, 2022
Sit with it.
What you can’t face,
what you can’t bear……..
what overpowers you, and makes you feel
like a helpless child……..
Sit with it,
and let it rise………..
until it fills you.
Reaches your nose,
and cuts off your breath………
choking,
suffocating,
suffusing everything.
Sit with it.
Until you must inhale……………
………………can hold your breath no longer…….
cannot find a way to not breathe again!
And take it in……….
into your lungs,
into your being,
feel its entry……………..
feel your resistances tumbling……………
………….crumbling……………………..
dissolving away,
…………………..leaving you defenseless,
naked,
vulnerable……………………………………..open.
Sit with it.
Allow this to be.
Watch it happen, and
……….FEEL!
All of it.
Sit with it,
until the tide has pulled away
the wreckage of your fortification,
the citadel which has held it away,
………………………..for so long……………
………and had kept you trapped inside
for even longer.
Sit with it.
Sit with the overwhelm,
until it is no longer…………..
………………………………overwhelming.
Look for the peace that comes
when the storm is past……………….
and step into………
……………………..your new freedom.
Sit with that!
