.....................Flood Poem by Leslie Gilkeson

Blood will tell
Coursing through veins and arteries
Through the Labyrinth plunging into the abyss past the portals of pain
Dragons await... The guardians of the portals of pain

Inner knowing can only be accomplishedby defeating the dragons guarding the portals
Integrity and courage are needed on a cellular level

To let go of self to let go of safe to embrace the pain it takes to grow to go
Past the dragons to the illumination revealed by the blood of inner knowing

Releasing the hold of hoarding old dragons that kept back a part of ourselves from us
Letting that spark re ignite into our new selves combining and reintegrating with all that
is with all that ever was and ever will be

Free from the reptilian past free to blast into a new future holding self a little more whole
Leaving the chalice and the blade in her wake
She awakens to a new dawn
Blood will tell