How Sickness Begins

The release of pain
Over-long denied,
Shadows of darkness,
Memories of sad,
Filling the cellular chalice.

Needing to be heard
A voice to speak truth,
A tumor grows
Filling with trauma,
Rooting through anger.

Easily forgiven
In the beginning of memory,
Pain transforms into fear.
Now a cancer to be chiseled out
Of the physical skin,
When the emotional body
Denies it’s sick.

Over-long denied,
The spirit finds a way to be heard,
To receive attention
To be loved,
Even healed and sealed
By God himself
When man won’t hear.

Unconnected,
The body cries back to spirit,
Who are you killing me?
Still not realizing the voice in the wilderness
Over-long denied,
Is the sound of unresolved anger
Drowning spirit for attention.

Tiffany Snow