EMERGING

A journey through menopause and out into second spring. IWD Daisy Chain Flower Crown #IWD

She washes into the harbour of this new land,

sheltering after four years on the wild seas of change.

She can barely remember the great visions she held for her future self,

to write and share the new menopause story

But her womb created, her heart healed

as she journalled daily pages

She recalls how only two years ago she scattered seeds,

celebrating the lives of women from menarche to menopause.

How only last year it blossomed into an exhibition,

sharing her own spoken words into a hall of hopeful faces

She holds the seedling fiercely to her chest but it feels a lifetime ago…

Four years she has traversed the seas of the soul,

wandering the waves of wisdom,

bruised by sudden winds of change

A heroines journey

of losing and finding herself over and over…

She left the tired relationship with her mother in those waters,

too heavy for the next chapter,

mighty menopause finally giving her the courage to go

This past year a blur of messy pain and grief

as she loosened the old her with every moon,

letting parts of herself scatter across the menopause seas

Now feet firmer in second spring,

the mist clears and the air smells of possibility

The sand between her toes transports her

back to seaside days with Grandad,

squeezing his cigarette stained hands of love

Her boat has weathered stormy skies and

witnessed the dying embers of an old story

Time now for her sails to be stitched tenderly together,

restored and repaired before embarking on the seas once again…

emerging from the harbour when the time is right