Flourish Magazine: Where is she? A poem by Nina Moore

Alongside the print version of Issue 2 of Flourish Magazine, The Connections Issue (available to view digitally here), we are releasing weekly digital content on the Artlift and Yes to Life websites, such as music, creative writing and blog posts.  

This week our digital piece is a poem by Nina Moore ‘Where is she?’ accompanied by her artwork. You can see more of Nina’s poetry and artwork in the print issue of the magazine here. 

Where is she?
By Nina Moore

I don’t recognise me,
An anonymous androgynous shell reflects back at me,
Pale, tired and dehumanised,
Unadorned and raw,
The epitome of ‘done’,
A car crash,
Where once a dancer stood
Alive, graceful and expressive.
A mother and wife,
So proud and brimming with joy,
With a smile to light up their hearts,
Playful and nurturing,
A natural home-maker and nest-builder.
A teacher,
Animated and passionate,
Breathing life into learning,
Growing generations to believe in the power of ‘I Can’.
An adventurer,
Hungry to explore the depths of her deep soul,
And set her spirit free across earth and oceans,
Connecting and collecting precious memories of time well spent,
Of family and togetherness,
Growing up and growing old,
United. A team.
An artist
Creative and inspired,
An imagineer of dreams, endless possibilities and stardust.
A lover,
Starstruck, devoted and loyal to her soulmate on loan from the universe,
Where the smallest distance is too great,
In a perpetual dance of unbreakable kinship and solidarity,
Where is she?
Where is that little girl with the constellation imagination, evolved into the woman with an infinity of dreams?
She has been cast into the momentary shadows of time by the monster within,
Cocooned.
A crysallis.
Quietly waiting against the beat of the iambic pentameter of time to metamorphosize,
o blossom wild and free once again,
Transformed by her pain,
Inhaling courage,
Exhaling fear.
Her time will come.
She’s waiting stage left,
Ready to sashay back towards the light.
She WILL rise.