http://www.activehealthcenter.nl/ - Lilith Turk

My Body

My body was a burden
Until I met Lilith Turk
It was a vessel that carried my rage
I fed it with the hatred my food became
I drank until it wept then drugged it to numbness
I ate to not speak of the pain and loneliness
I gave it to others to mishandle and disrespect
Treatment this body had learnt to expect

Then I walked into a class Lilith, led by you.

Something changed at that moment

There came something new

My body was always the bringer of strife
My body until that moment was the bane of my life
The lump of flesh with which I was cursed
That reflected the misery of my mind, of my birth

When I do therapeutic stretching with Lilith Turk
My body is still a bringer of pain
The pain of information long held restrained
Muscles are messages of areas ignored
Tell of whole territories yet to be explored
My body has become a field of possibilities
Journey's beckon, oceans are made from seas

Only concentration and application are necessary
To accomplish the voyages stretching before me
My body has still its limitations

They are now challenges to be negotiated.

When I get down, consumed by depression and self hate

Which manifests in isolation. I cannot participate.

Still I struggle to find the compassion for myself.

Know I need to stop the thoughts churning, take the time to return

To connect with my body, to communicate and re learn.

Financial competence is my second largest learning curve

You wiped that away to let me work on my first

Lilith you are an avatar of Body Self Connection

Your stretching classes are a living message

To the body/self, to embrace, to love, to spurn rejection.

I cannot truly describe or repay the gifts you have given

My simple, maybe feeble response is these words I have written

My a deep and heartfelt wish is to express  my gratitude - Thank You.