"Life Lifting Heavy Metals" by Claire Broderick

Life Lifting Heavy Metals

By Claire Broderick 

Weights of lead

I carry them willingly.

Listening to every word that’s said.

problems. politics. pain. this world and death.

Each conversation, each interaction a visit inside the minds of others.

Their fears of reality, truth found in moments faced: some of which we all will face.

I listen and I absorb.

Weights of Ore

I carry them with empathy.

Womanly as me, I validate with awe.

Offering kindness, softly, deep in the understanding of great loss.

I share in stories sometimes in tears; reminders of our fragile humanity.

I care in beauty with acceptance of hardness. It is okay.

I am solid as your rock.

Weights of steel

I carry them successfully.

Validation of what my life is, chosen only by me as independently as my freedom allows.

Not without sacrifice.

Long days that turn into long nights.

Recognizing the struggles. Morphing with the times; problems solved with creativity.

Successfully building the muscle of my not one, but two corporations in my life.

I live up to my dreams.

Every weight links of a chain, holding tight around my body like Houdini.

Heavy weight is carried by the strength I find in my body, mind and soul.

Locked by the stress and depression I sometimes feel.

It is in my brain, that I find the keys that’ll set me free from this ill.

Mind over matter is what matters to me.

Keys of gratitude, keys with love and the key of positivity.

Self love equals light; clairvoyantly peaking through the grays from a life knowingly bounded by

lifting heavy metals.

Breaking free from the oppressing sadness that is everywhere in this world.

My brain thinking of the magic that is in me, that is entwined with you, smitten by my light....

I keep shining brightly, thankful I’m not alone.