The Lotus and the Mud - Chrisette Michele

I was reborn in chaos like a lotus flower

The darkness embraced me

I didn’t know I needed love till I was

Suffocating

Oh yes

For some of us it takes time to be seated

In one of three bear’s chairs before we

Find out we are Goldilocks and this isn’t our home

Ego, id, and flesh, we are spirit isolated alone

Just using these bones

I was introspective in the mud, dew drops felt more like a flood

I couldn’t see the morning dew but she surrounded me

Too much of anything is never sweet

The earth elements were soaked in its heaviness

The soil makes dew stick like evidence

Evidence that I’ve been locked down

Evidence that I’m underground

Evidence that I’m just pursued

I was a true, life uprooted me

Oh yes

Dew seems sweet when it’s only drops

The sun shines on it as it glides

Down lotus leaves and evaporates into the day

My dew drops felt more like rain

Dew wasn’t sweet, it was formative

It wasn’t cooling, it was cold

It didn’t glide, it seeped through to my pores

I could feel it grasp my ribs and shift my soul

And my breaths were pressed against it

Deep breaths were a conscious effort

Nobody saw me learning lessons

I was underground, class was in session

Oh, the leaves of my lotus flower

Pink or covered in mud, they formed

The leaves of my darkest hour

Invisible under mud, reborn

Oh yes

Have you ever been formed in the darkness

Have you ever been formed beneath the elements of earth and water?

I hope you know that you are surrounded and dew drops

They will be sweet soon, you will rise above the earth

And rest with the sun as your friend

And the water that pulls you into submission

Will be the water that cools you as your petals become the testimony

Of a word that was said before you, a flower

While you were becoming one, end it to address you now

To be a lotus flower today

Is to have always been becoming one

To be a lotus flower today

Is to have always been one becoming

Beneath the dew drops

Oh yes

Peace