Virgo - "Need" | October 27, 2022

The inner child of my past has disembodied herself from me. She's likely wandered somewhere, aimlessly, with disheveled hair and a stained white, cotton shirt. A mouth watered by wonder and pupils barricaded by four rings of wildfire and melancholic tales of Atlantis. Nail beds like the underground of Hades bedroom and knees like skinned softballs with one bandaid hanging on for dear life. And all the while, I know she is terrified without me.  She’s probably nervous, running in the woods like a fairy born inside of a ghostland, trinkets of gold bells dangling from her hair and glacial like fog biting at her feet. I’ve traveled miles to find her and here she is; dancing in circles with wolves and scratching beastly creatures behind their ears like they’re modern day golden retrievers. The coyotes have fallen asleep at her feet and knowledge bearing owls hoot into her ear as their feet clamp around her delicate shoulders.  And as I hide behind this tree, watching her grace, her fearlessness and the courage that bleeds from every pore embedded inside of her sewn, glittered skin…I realized, it was I, that needed her.