- Sez Kristiansen
Ancestral Healing
Those crescent moon markings
upon your palm,
they tattoo your lifeline
with the unconscious
narrowing of your body.
Your past generations
still etch their
hurt upon your skin,
marking out their
territory of trauma
on the very hands
that were made to heal.
Open palms,
open heart,
open up to the possibility
of becoming a passage for hurt
not to find its way home
but a halfway house;
a place in-between
arrival and renewal.