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THE GODDESS OF SHOWING UP<\/strong><\/p>\n –<\/span>for Mohini Sharma<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Mohini, our shining star<\/span><\/p>\n a slayer of demons long before we met<\/span><\/p>\n & don\u2019t get sweet or humble like you do<\/span><\/p>\n I checked Wikipedia & it\u2019s the second paragraph under your LEGENDS<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n & you might tell me I\u2019m mistaken<\/span><\/p>\n that I was looking at the Goddess<\/span><\/p>\n I looked at The Goddess when I saw you<\/span><\/p>\n I learned your name thereby I learned hers<\/span><\/p>\n the glory of magic, of illusion, of truth!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n beckoning us into the Maya we share<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n no way out but through<\/span><\/p>\n as above so below<\/span><\/p>\n as within so without<\/span><\/p>\n never broken by the truth<\/span><\/p>\n like the way the forge sees the value of will<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n flowing through this destructive dance<\/span><\/p>\n the body of our polity aching<\/span><\/p>\n this too is magic, is illusion, is truth<\/span><\/p>\n what else could a Goddess do but show up for the work?<\/span><\/p>\n not one single soul in this world is alone.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n bereft, we began building equity in our hearts<\/span><\/p>\n we went out into the streets with cries for justice<\/span><\/p>\n the swell rising like our selfsame ocean of sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n our arctic traumas breaking away into the waters in big chunks<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n the faces of a thousand allies breaking up on the shore<\/span><\/p>\n the screams fading into the hushhush waves on sand<\/span><\/p>\n as it is our future it is our history<\/span><\/p>\n you sit on the bluff & your cry is like the last eagle<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Mohini, our shining star, touch your own head<\/span><\/p>\n reduce the demons of our burnout to ashes<\/span><\/p>\n illuminate the night sky with hope.<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019re here for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE GODDESS OF SHOWING UP –for Mohini Sharma \u00a0 Mohini, our shining star a slayer of demons long before we met & don\u2019t get sweet or humble like you do I checked Wikipedia & it\u2019s the second paragraph under your LEGENDS \u00a0 & you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64587,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62361\/revisions\/64587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>I assure you<\/span><\/p>\n