Secret Places of My Soul
Deep in the dark is where I find
bad memories I left behind.
Trauma and sorrow took their toll
on secret places of my soul.
Lost and broken, my fall from grace
and I went down without a trace
into the abyss, black as coal,
to secret places of my soul.
From jagged steel clouds I found hope
that strengthened me and gave me hope.
I buried the past, became whole
from secret places of my soul.
Deep in the dark is where I find
the secret places of my soul.
Colleen Keller Breuning © 2024
February 3, 2024
Happy Saturday, everyone! Well, I made it through the January 31 deadline, woo hoo! Plenty of long days, weekend work, overtime and stress are behind me. Tax season has hardly begun, but the worst is over for all of the paraprofessionals.
January was a long blur of a month. We didn’t get home from our Christmas in Florida until December 30, and I jumped immediately into working every day in January. Therefore, I left my Christmas decorations up the entire month for the first time in my life. It has been literally driving me crazy, but I’ve had to just put on blinders and not let it stress me out. Well, this is the weekend that I will finally “undecorate.” And what a shame, it is so beautiful outside but I’m stuck inside by choice this weekend to finally get the house back to normal. Wish me luck lol!
This poem is a Kyrielle sonnet with a twist. Typically the last line is repeated in all stanzas, except I broke the rules and changed the first word of the final stanza line. Haha, rebel without a cause, am I! It was inspired by Laura Branigan lyrics “deep in the dark.” We all experience pain or trauma of some degree in our lives, and the healing process is different for everyone. It can feel as though you are falling into an abyss, and you must find a way to pull yourself out of that dark hole. And only YOU can do it – you must change yourself, change your circumstances, change your way of thinking, or you must embrace a new way of living or coping. Healing comes from deep within, sometimes from secret places of the soul.
That’s all for this week. Have a beautiful weekend and stay warm!
Xoxo,
Colleen
Inspiration: “On the Nature of Daylight” by Max Richter
Ecrits Blogophilia Week 31.15 – The Lost City
Hard Bonus: Incorporate a lyric by Laura Branigan (“deep in the dark” and “I went down without a trace”)
Easy Bonus: Include a secret place (my soul)
Colleen Keller Breuning 
I do love when you go dark, and I love the twist – I may have to borrow that idea some time lol!
I finally got our Christmas decorations put away two weeks ago, then my son asked me last week if I wanted their wreath and for whatever reason I said ‘yes,’ so it’s been sitting in my car for a week waiting for me to go back to storage. And I still have my normal knickknacks that I took down to make way for the Christmas decorations sitting in the box I put them in. My goal for this weekend it to finally put everything back where it goes. We’ll see, that was my goal for last weekend as well lol!
Darkness with a twist – what could be better? And it is no fun undecorating the spaceship for Christmas, I can’t even bribe Commander K with bacon to help! KUDOS Dear Earthling! ❤