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My great-great-great-grandfather, The father of my grandfather's great-grandfather, He was a teacher by creed and by deed, Once he sat with his eyes closed in great concentration... A beautiful lady saw him sitting graciously in Padmasana pose, That cunning nymph she wanted his penance undone for herself, But he was a little short-tempered and couldn't take it when she tried it, His patience was very short when it came to being disturbed during his penance. Disturbed, he saw the beautiful nymph trying to break his temper, He got enraged and picked up his trident to quickly ****** it through her ***** She had fear in her eyes, Remorse on her face, Pain in her contorted brows, And despair in her dying voice, As she uttered the curse, *"O you so-called holy man, You would never get love, Your generations to come would die thirsty of love, You're killing me because you can't make love to me, So lost in your penance, And so possessive about it, Let your generations suffer for your actions..."* She dropped dead there itself but her curse continues to be carried from one generation to the next. I have been paying the price too, Just like my father and grandfather, No girl I knew has understood it, No I won't just follow my forefathers, I'll have it my way, I'll keep searching.
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 8:53 AM UTC
The Curse
few people who tell me to forget about the past just fail to understand that sometimes past doesn't forget me They fail to realize that one is still in the battlefield dodging bullets surviving attempted ****** my war is still ungoing but as always chances are I survive like I often do by unseen forces its a cruel ancestral karmic war that must be paid no one is immune to it no matter how prosperous waiges of sin generating good and bad Karma are unstapable ask me I've lived it in the flesh wining or losing doesn't matter too much it doesn't depend on the self alone One has to experience cause and effect of all actions and inactions perhaps generational values apply here must perform my deed suffer their bad karma what can I as a recipient do but endure please don't say to soldier me in this battlefield hell of mine "forget the past! look forward!" "Don't look back, you'll crash and die!" my forward might be more of the same battlefield ****** neverending generational type war unprovoqued covert enemies  ever popping up like agents in my Matrix did unexpectedly using different names covert culprit Terminator One others wearing masks hungry wolves some in sheeps clothings others smiling snakes in my fallen paradise many have fallen though by my side and something out there from beyond spares me the people of God shall taste poison and it won't harm the Lord upholds me and I wait patiently safe heaven is within me.
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Jul 11, 2019
Jul 11, 2019 at 4:38 PM UTC
A Karmic battlefield
*Head tilted Lips to Sky Silhouette of Strength Ancient Truths Resonate within Shoulders wide Stance solid~ strong and wise A Knowing of what has come before Heart open Deep of vision Seeing forward~back Layers of time Fully present Embracing all Your being, Your soul Beating a rhythm that trancends this earth~this universe Weaving us together as One* Copyright © 7/15/2015 Christi Michaels. All Rights Reserved. Ancestral Beings
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Jul 3, 2016
Jul 3, 2016 at 2:22 PM UTC
Ancestral Beings
Unmoved everything is leaden My thoughts are dry Striving like a ship in a bladderwrack sea My vanity is death to creativity Give me lonesome insanity And the truth in delirium dreams Give me truth that hammers in torrents At the warped deck Give me truth that seeps and runs To the lowest point Truth that opens clouds Rolls back seas Revealing slime-rock weed-whipped me Give me the humming in the womb The beating in the drum That settled in my ancestor’s ear Distant sounds, drawing near
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Apr 13, 2021
Apr 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM UTC
Humming in the Womb
Watered out into this cold, cruel world My parents are still trying to survive Can I blame them for wanting not to? I don't either. Want to lose what I love. Home. What's the cost if what I love harms me? Isolate again insearch for home. Where my soul can finally rest. My human can thrive without love's conditions. My mind loses its grip. Who I had to be is no more. My heart numb. Overwhelmed. Trying not to care. Making myself invisible. Still yearning for deep relief. I've tried creating a home in falsehood Belonging to causes & thoughtforms. Soul is now their prize, imprisoned. These mental bars amplify the internal echo. My ancestors' screams through every DNA strand. You can't fully experience what you don't give yourself first. Overflow all that energy they want from me from within. Protect our essence. Your wholeness is home.
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Sep 24, 2025
Sep 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM UTC
In search of an unmeshed warmth
#* Promises it has kept In fine latticed silver chain Cascading, tiny silver bells The paisley leaf hook, embellished with pearls and semi precious stones Antique and pure, the melody The charm and chimes of the bells Sparkling silver anklets Held memories of occasions prime Bespoke vintage jewellery From silversmiths of old repute and times Generations of happiness Strengthening bonds*#
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Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 at 9:05 PM UTC
Silver anklets
A lamentation carved in ancestral ash and silken wrath I was born beneath a roof of borrowed stars, where silence was stitched into my cradlecloth, and every withheld scream became a psalm for the Sentinel of Bloodline me. They speak in tongues dipped in honeyed venom, those kin who wear concern like ceremonial garlands, but their rituals reek of rot their blessings, barbed. The Bearer of Burdens my progenitor spent his prime erecting altars for their comfort, his sweat sanctified their feasts, his spine bent into bridges they now demand be paved with gold and guilt. Two daughters, they hiss, as if our existence were a ledger of loss, as if his labor must be transmuted into inheritance for those who never wept for him. And the Matriarch of Grace my origin flame they veil her with shame, commenting on her visage, demanding she drape herself in submission as if dignity were theirs to dictate. Yet she speaks to them still, with a grace that defies gravity, while I her blood’s echo burn in silence, my fury folded into polite nods and counterfeit smiles. I want to unsheath my voice, etch boundaries into their bones, teach them the sacred geometry of respect. How dare they trespass into the sanctum of our suffering? But I swallow my wrath for the Matriarch’s peace, for the Bearer’s dignity, for the society that weighs silence as virtue. Still, silence is a slow crucifixion. So I write. I ritualize my rage into verse, my grief into glyphs, my defiance into legacy. Let this poem be a blade wrapped in velvet, a dirge for the betrayed, a sanctuary for Sentinels who guard their lineage like sacred flame.
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Oct 1, 2025
Oct 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM UTC
“Silken Wrath & Ancestral Ash: A Dirge for the Betrayed
A lamentation carved in ancestral ash and silken wrath I was born beneath a roof of borrowed stars, where silence was stitched into my cradlecloth, and every withheld scream became a psalm for the Sentinel of Bloodline me. They speak in tongues dipped in honeyed venom, those kin who wear concern like ceremonial garlands, but their rituals reek of rot their blessings, barbed. The Bearer of Burdens my progenitor spent his prime erecting altars for their comfort, his sweat sanctified their feasts, his spine bent into bridges they now demand be paved with gold and guilt. Two daughters, they hiss, as if our existence were a ledger of loss, as if his labor must be transmuted into inheritance for those who never wept for him. And the Matriarch of Grace my origin flame they veil her with shame, commenting on her visage, demanding she drape herself in submission as if dignity were theirs to dictate. Yet she speaks to them still, with a grace that defies gravity, while I her blood’s echo burn in silence, my fury folded into polite nods and counterfeit smiles. I want to unsheath my voice, etch boundaries into their bones, teach them the sacred geometry of respect. How dare they trespass into the sanctum of our suffering? But I swallow my wrath for the Matriarch’s peace, for the Bearer’s dignity, for the society that weighs silence as virtue. Still, silence is a slow crucifixion. So I write. I ritualize my rage into verse, my grief into glyphs, my defiance into legacy. Let this poem be a blade wrapped in velvet, a dirge for the betrayed, a sanctuary for Sentinels who guard their lineage like sacred flame.
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