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Spirit Shaman

[center]Spirit Shaman

Thunderous blinding light makes me cry out
Hurting me as it opens to heal all things

Bending my head back as I shake & wail
He's bowing forward, doubled over me

The pain, oh the gods, my shaman take me
How can I survive, help me pass over

How I scream, I can't breathe, what's happening
The medicine is failing, let me die!

But I hear the rattle, the drum, he chants
With voice that cracks & soothes as it sings low

Then piercing call of speckled hawk soaring
Straight into 3 suns, their glare sears my brain

Where it comes from the spirit earth shaman
Pulls down from the sky of four elements

Wakes that keep him from entering heaven
Through his eyes it rains silver-blue & gold

His hands pull from me black spots of disease,  
White-hot threads passing through & turning bile

Into pure energy, going inwards
The blessing of his craft his selflessness

The gift he himself cannot partake of
His kind eyes from which his own tears now fall

The torment of day has now dipped to show
An atrium of galactic firebrands

That hover o'er my body with serpents
Who hydrate me from streams into my veins

The shaman squeezes my arm one more time
As the chirp of my life force awakens.




Preview image "graveyard" (from the term "graveyard shift") by Jade Pandora at the hospital where this poem took place when she lost a kidney to cancer.

This is entered in Ahavati's DUP competition 'Light' Spiritual Encounter.
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Written by Jade-Pandora (jade tiger)
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