Shadows Or Light
I was born into skin woven from earthen darkness, but I dress myself in light.
Shadow or Light
Yin or Yang
Feminine or Masculine
What is or what is possible
Pain or Healing
Sorrow or Joy
Hiddenness or Revelation
Humanity or Divinity
All the dichotomies of existence
I embrace them all.
Life leading to death making way for new life
This incredible dance of discovery
of the give and take
of Light and Dark in human experience
Glorious and Mundane
Sacred and Profane
Ecstasy and Despondency
I follow the Light in Night
Fullness
Waning
Wandering in dark
Waxing
To full sight again
I honor the merging of that which I’ve assumed cannot merge –
within this experimental voyage
of Spirit in Skin
on terrestrial plane
I was born into this vessel of earthen darkness and I clothe myself in otherworldly light.
— Emie Locke, March 2018