For context, the poem is about being presented with the opportunity to face ourselves and decide who we want to be. If we want our lives to be shaped by what others have showed us and told us about ourselves, or plunge into the unknown and trust ourselves fully. It’s about the sometimes painful often scary process of discovering our own authenticity, and the power and potential that exists when we get there… after many many sessions with Fiona. ?????

You are standing at the threshold

Where the sand receives the waves

The great expanse awakening

The fall of ancient caves

The sparkling crests

The crystal swells

Make sea glass of your throne

And send you to make meaning

Of this life you call your own

You step into the coral

Spinning webs around your feet

And all the lies they spoke of you

Come crashing through the reef

You kick and pull to clear the way

But tighter still they bind

Tangled in their spindles

Is the self you left behind

Wading past the shallows

Golden fractals wash your skin

The tide a soft reminder

Where it’s deeper you must swim

The salt of all their judgements

Stings the surfaces you’ve scraped

While you tried being perfect, love,

You never could be great

Remember now as fast you tread

The wild one you were

When Spirit sang inside of you

You danced inside of her

Plunging in the undertow

No fear of pain nor cold

You will always lose the most

The tighter on you hold

You are standing at the threshold

Where the dusk receives the sun

Where darkness is the mirror

Of the shadows we’ve become

To stop yourself from seeing now

Would be to stop a wave

You’d fill a thousand buckets

And yet not a drop you’d save

And now that you have fought to breathe

It won’t be hard to float

You have ridden through this storm

Because you are the boat

Unleash the anchor, raise your sails

And boldly face the wind

This is where the passage ends

It’s here where you begin