The open heart is a wild horse. Feral and fierce.
Brimming with fire and compassion.
She understands the infinite potential of love and hate and doesn’t shame herself for knowing how to deeply feel both.
She faces her own fire.
She walks through it and is purified.
She refuses to hold back her tears or her purified anger. It’s just not possible now.
She takes up space and holds a space for you in her expansiveness.
She feels the pain of Mother Earth and has compassion for the original wounds of the monsters who plague her.
She doesn’t fear or obey the monsters anymore.
She was once inflamed but now she is the fire.
Allison Elizondo, 2023