I travel through time and space with memories vague and distant of times long ago.

Taste takes me back to bare foot in the red desert, a small child laughing…playing care free in the red sand.

Smell shows me a lost love across distant waters, tears sting my face…lavender fills the air, my heart longing.

Scenes of violence leave me filled with fear which grips my stomach like a vice. My breath short and gasping rasping in my throat like a saw cutting its way to freedom.

The pain of power held deep within, the fear of its release mixed with anger, hurt and blame, that’s held so deep it’s as if it does not really exist.

The memories I no longer need for they feed me not with love, peace, and joy.

I release them all; I surrender to all that my life can be now, in this present time, this world filled with love, joy, peace, and hope I feed my soul with these.

Distant painful memories of my past lives no longer serve the best of who I am today…I release them.