My Selection — The She Book
by Tanya Markul
In the era of social media in which our every thought, opinion and emotive moment is publicly shared, it is unsurprising that a new form of poetry has caught the imagination of so many. Here is a form which has offered permission and space to voice the often uncomfortable truths which lie beneath the surface. Just behind the façade of the everyday, buried with the frustrations, hopes, worries and confusions of daily life.
fifty-eight
When you realise you’ve felt like a caged animal for too long, but suddenly hear the click of the lock in the door to freedom…
When you discover that the lock was never a lock, but a locket in the shape of your heart carrying the beat to the anthem of your soul…
When it turns out that the walls keeping you safe, the ones echoing the sounds of your own drum, were mere illusions of your overly protective mind…
When you hear the sound of the universe, not outside you, but within you, as you…
And you step both feet outside of the walls and into a new kind of freedom, a different kind of you.
And you roar with an aliveness that breaks through illusion, that breaks through you into You.
