On Rupi Kaur

For exercise 2 on page 9 of Rupi Kaur’s healing through words, it says to read the prompt and freewrite your thoughts:

 I thought about the last poem that I’d written and it was shaped around recalling that I practiced Goddess Pose after some trauma that occurred after relationship trauma. “The thing I am most scared of people finding out” is about this trauma and the details of it, how much pain I went through after making this decision for myself based on how he reacted about the situation. So I wrote a poem, and you’ll also see it in Memoir 7. I wanted to add where I’m at through the recovery of the practice. My therapist gave me a trauma informed yoga video at the time that I brought up the trauma to her.

Ukata Konasana,

Goddess Pose, I arrive--

feet rooted, heart open,

Knowing my inner strength

like a mountain at sunrise

The Earth remembers my name.

I step into warrior,

fierce and unshaken

to all I have overcome- the vices I left behind

Mindful in the moment,

I flow gently onward,

finding myself in Triangle

reaching---

In Child’s Pose, I fold inward

breathing life into what once ached--

offering compassion

to the child still learning to feel safe.

I am grateful-

for how far I’ve come

and the grace to soften.