Endings and Beginnings - Solar Eclipse

Tentatively
I scrape away at the surface.
Little by little the top layer is removed
exposing the rich, brown soil.

Hidden from the light, it has been concealed,
moist, damp, dark and fertile.

I make a hollow
and feel the crumbly earth
packed under my fingernails,
as I start to dig.

Bare hands
excavating,
deeper, deeper
as a hole is pulled
from inside myself
and transplanted in the ground
beneath my dirty hands.

This deep dark cavern is potent,
receptive and waiting
as I drop my past into the bottom,
and feel it spread and ooze
down into the expectant earth.

From deep within me
I release my unspent tears,
they surge upward, irrigating me
loosening the tiny rocks
and pebbles
of hurt

Gushing out and into the hole,
shiny and wet against the black earth.
Washed clean

I feel bubbles of joy rising from my core,
I drop to my knees as I begin to smile
and then with my body shaking
I laugh into that deep dark hole.

From out of my mouth like shining stars
seeds S C A T T E R on the newly fertilsed soil
and begin to germinate as soon as they touch the ground.

The joy thunders through my body
as I gently cup the mounded soil
and begin to fill the hole.

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