Dancing Naked

Music of the Day – Dreams by Stevie Nicks

Link to lyrics – http://www.metrolyrics.com/dreams-lyrics-fleetwood-mac.html

Stuck in my own mind of visions of the girl I left behind so long ago.  She was put into a box, safe and secure, locked up for eternity, I thought.  But she cried and pleaded, the longer she was locked up.  She would not quiet her inner storm – longing to be free and become what she was meant to become.

And so, She wants her freedom – I will not deny that any longer!  Instead, I unlock the lock, open the box, and let her free.  She comes out shyly at first, wary of the world of which she is so unsure.  Is it safe?  At the first sign of trouble, she quickly re-enters her box of confinement – missing the known safety and unsure of what she may experience out there.  Out there, where the big, bad monsters conjured in her mind for so long could exist.

She opens her heart and with timid baby steps, she ventures to the unknown.  There is pain, but not like she felt in her prison.  This pain is something that can be held, examined, used for another time. She feels a burning within her – a shivering deep within.

She does not go back into the box.  Instead, she squats on the ground, waiting just as her primal Mother before her. Anticipating something – she knows not what it is.

Suddenly, an opening and her wings burst forth.  She feels the fire of longing and passion beneath her feet.  She stands – opens her arms, her wings.  And out of the fire, she soars – the phoenix rising from the ashes.  She flies into the air and the storm clouds head on – no fear.

Thunder causes her to tilt her wings, lowering back to the ground.  She lands on the mountaintop and waits, in silent knowing, that her time is now.  The rain comes but does not destroy her feathered wings – she is cleansed from the old fears and the old somber warnings. She knows – she understands – she accepts – she embraces.

She is no longer a prisoner – she is free! Free to be wild and true!  Free to become the magnificence of phoenix, yet this time is different.  She will not consume herself again.  This time she walks, flies, soars, swims, runs, and plays.  She is

            C – Coyote

            R – Raven

            O – Owl

            W – Wolf

She is all these and more!