Shannii Maree – Strong Without Realising
Life through the eyes of a woman who had no idea how strong she was becoming
Eyes see but they also listen To the light, to the dark, to the all and the nothing We see and yet we can be blind We can be blind and yet we can see Visions unfolding within our beings Observations made that we think are clear Our eyes recognize a truth buried deep within
I have abandoned myself to life and the way she moves me. The shifting, the weaving, the paths lit with soulful light. The way life has met me at my edges and then shown me the way those edges can move. The way life has allowed love to fill my being and rip me apart
Your beating heart is worth no less than any other beating heart The way you love is yours to give And receiving is what your heart has been fashioned for. Each time you feel that heart beat it shows the love of the universe pouring through every inch of that delicate skin that holds your
Before we die, I will have roamed where the wild things are, I will have loved in all the spaces I was afraid to love, I will have lived by my own rules and broken those rules over and over again, I will have healed and broken and healed and broken again realising I was
When you feel that heaviness what do you do? Do you allow it to flow or do you tighten up like a screw? Forcing things into holes that they don’t really fit. Hoping maybe one day you will manage to forget all about it. Praying those feelings will just disappear But instead finding out they
Into this world I landed Purging and crying out any dregs of pain Onto the grass I lay I cried tears into pachamamas arms Stood in my warrior body I let loose all that I had held in Ready to be reborn For my soul to shine Free from the burdens of lives past Free
The sound came She roared She felt everything that had been holding her back She screamed for the times she felt judged She screamed for the times others didn’t feel her Her soul screamed for journeys past Bile rose Bile escaped She heaved with all her might She felt the arms of support engulf her
Oh to be free, she thought. Like the wind blowing through the trees Or the ocean rolling it’s waves onto the shore. This cage feels dense Heavy and unshakeable Can she break free? Is the cage within her mind able to be broken? Choose, they say, You just have to choose So she chooses Yet
She sees you, you know She knows of the love you desire The love that you give away so freely She knows how much that fills you up She also knows that sometimes you don’t know when to stop Sometimes you place that love in places it remains unseen Undervalued you feel But you aren’t
She smiles Yet it doesn’t reach her eyes The depth of her pain Kept locked away inside She yearns to reach out And express the whirlwind within Yet her past torments her Reminders crawling on her skin Will she? Won’t she? Or will she close up and flee? Past patterns repeating Until one day she
Shannii Maree - Strong Without Realising 