Alchemize trauma - Sarah Ketel

Alchemize trauma - Sarah Ketel

Inch by inch,

as slow as breath allows,

we crawl closer

After hard punches

thrown with words

it’s time now

for softer ones

Deeper ones

The kind that sting less

and sink more

Accountability creeps in like dawn,

quiet but undeniable

Stories unravel

Histories exhaled

Not to blame

but to be seen

We rock the boat

We keel the ship

Not a storm this time,

just a sudden

shift in wind

A word

A glance

An echo of something that once cut deep

Anxiety

she’s got a room in my house

Rents free space in my chest

She fires off signals long

before I know they’ve arrived

And when love is the manifest,

keeling hurts harder

It opens skin,

spills the insides

scars on hearts

bruises on memories

truths etched

into

bones

To remain soft?

That’s a warrior’s task

Patience.

Commitment.

Kindness.

A daily devotion.

Because love

love isn’t a magic wand

It’s roses and barbed wire

Sometimes it’s a rope in the grass

Sometimes it’s a dragon

breathing fire into the cracks

of our being

But what’s left

is the alchemy

To take every drop,

every ache,

every ounce of pain

and spin it

into godly honey

thick, golden love

Drink it slow,

until nothing remains

but the holy space

It built

And builds

So I stay

And stay still

Write to ride through a reaction

A woman in a chair,

listening to rain

with no knowing of what’s next

or what was

My body remembers

what I do not

A child inside me

chasing rainbows

and running from pain

I can choose to pause

To question

To meet with wonder

And just

Be still

And wait

Because the research

always,

always leads back to love.