Echoes

Sounds repeated
empty of meaning,
Habits of behaviour repeated
empty of growth,
Patterns of relating repeated
empty of love,
Trauma repeated
empty of the awareness
of its reverberation down the generations,
its sticky web ensnaring the unwary
into simply repeating
its empty echoes.

Until
one brave
soul,
wanting to change that generational echo,
chooses to move out of the familiar dance,
and, hoping to role model Love for the following ages,
begins a new and unfamiliar pattern.
Showing the naysayers that it can be done.

An honest, healthy and strong way of being,
Of taking responsibility for one's own life
Acting instead of reacting,
Loving freely and unconditionally,
No longer tangled in neediness,
weighed down by the disempowerment
of expecting others to 'make it right'
and looking to echoes for meaning.

Instead,
in learning to truly love self,
comes the understanding of
the what
the how
and the why
of echoes.

Recognising Love as the source
of all meaning.