By Jessica
My feet mould themselves
To the curves and valleys
Of these old stones
The aroma of ancestors
Seep through the rubber sole
Of my soft shoes
Into the creases of my toes
The arch of my foot smells the rhythms
Of their steps
Carrying them to market
To school
To visit friends
To work
To sing, dance
Walk beyond the cobblestone
To the shore
The fields
The hills
The woods
The sky wider
More free
More air
More time
For these cathedrals
Built on top of more ancient temples
Have already crested the summit of oppression
And exhaled to the other side
Remembering the importance of rest
And celebration
The stones in these walls
Have been torn down
Rehewn
Restacked
By arms that have tired and died
And been reborn
All without the city spilling out of its skin
For it is alive inside itself
The stones here give rise to flowers
And dreams
And art
Dance and song flow from them
For they still live and breath
Like mountains
Covered in moss
They move with the heavings
Of Mother Earth’s breasts
As she sings the song of life
To all who live here
So loudly that most can still hear it
I can see this song in eyelashes smiling
Dancing feet walk
Molding to the contours of the cobblestones
Smelling the scent of the ancestors
Through their soles
Their souls
Still connected
Still remembering
What it means to be alive
Still able to feel
For the shackles of enslavement
Have worn too thin
To hold the vast freedom within
The sea of liberation has crashed against the stony shore
Of oppression
Too many times
For those walls to hold anyone inside any longer
It takes but a breath
Like blowing out a candle
To send those stones crumbling
I hold up my hand
In the wind
And aim its power
To all that is rigid
Add by breath to its song
Shake my hips to its dance
That these stones soften
And curve
With the creative pathways
Found in my thighs
Open portals that lead to sanctuaries
Like the wisdom in my womb
And carry me home on silken sails
That ride the waves of change
Jessica Huckabay is the founder of the Womb Centered Healing Temple and hosts Writing from the Womb Workshops weekly. Learn more about this and other offerings by exploring this site.
Evie is assisting Jessica to publish her work online