Oh, I pray to you, my holy nervous system

Patriarchy taught me well
How to value money more than my feelings
How to suppress the little whispers of my body
Caring for all and everything
With pride
With importance
Managing a life at the cost of magic moments

Oh, flow, your tears of mine
Flow from the bottom of my heart and teach me better
Teach me to remember my depth
Teach me how to live in my truth
Teach me how to feel my pain

Break me free from old beliefs
I mistook for strength

Oh, I pray to you, my holy nervous system
You’re wiser than wise, you are true to yourself

You can’t fool anyone, not even me
You know truth by sensation
You live in alignment
without permission
You carry a wisdom
No system could ever own

Oh, tears of liberation
Tears of rebellion
I welcome you, break me free
from productivity as worth
from silence as safety
from survival as a personality

Oh, and all your feelings much older than me
Come out! You’re free

Don’t hold on to stoic work ideas
Of pressure,
Of achievement,
Of goals

Let go of strategies
Built to survive a world
That never protected me

Come with me now
Into the universe’s intelligence

Where energies lead you,
Beauty heals you,
Truth revitalises you
And the path magically appears to you

Let the old ways die
They were never yours anyway

I trust in my tears
I trust my nerves
I trust you, my life

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