Olga Alvarado

Into Me

Racing pulse as the sweat drips down

My petrified bones unmovable

Like a sculpture it screams let me go

Out of this space I find my eyes

Open to a black curtain tickling

Painfully teasing me are its ties

To my head that go left to right

Touching nothing but feeling everything

That is there and not there

But is here and getting near

To take me away forever theirs

A rock under my hand, smooth

The surface is, hurting and soothing

My fear is reaching its peak

Into my heart the drumming

Sounds deafening, healing, beautiful

Lightness lifts me up, loosening

The stiffness, no more

Lying to myself, it’s pointless

To resist the beauty of flight

At this hour soaring high

Are the clouds beneath me

Is the body and the home

I thought was mine but I now see

Up here and down there

It’s not me because I’m everywhere

I see it’s me, and it’s you too

That I see when I took the journey

Into me, suddenly

I understood.