Hello friends,
I was thinking recently about all those internal battles we fight. A subject that comes to my mind often, perhaps because I have a fair share of my own to deal with, as most of us do.
Some of this turmoil we are willing to share with someone close to us, and some we keep locked away even from the ones we trust the most.
To give these demons a voice can feel like giving them more power, realness, or recognition than they should possess. Maybe to speak of them aloud fills us with a fear of appearing weak. Someone else may not see them as the fierce beasts we do and find them silly. Their identity revealed may bring us too much pain, or even shame.
Whatever the situation is for you, I wish you love and strength to make it through.❤
Devil’s Dance
On a whisper
in the wind,
In a wave rolling
to sea’s end,
Under shadows
cast by night,
In stories written
inside the mind,
Naught will know
upon a whim,
Afflictions braved
from within,
Secret demons
cast no light
Kept well hidden
far from sight,
No wind, no wave,
nor dark of night,
Reveal the devil’s
dance of spite,
Real or imagined,
alone we fight,
Will of iron
steel held tight.
–Joan Wiley
Copyright 2020 Joan Wiley
