Like tidal waves feelings are washing through her in a strong and steady flow.
“Let go! Stay put! Move on! Don’t give up! Push away! Keep your faith!”

She lays on a deserted beach with the Sky stretching its blue canvas up above, Sun slowly pushing away a morning mist. Air is fresh and moist carrying a scent of ocean breeze after a storm.

“What now?” she wonders, digging her toes into the sand in search of a support and grounding. Ocean waves inch closer, licking at her toes, whispering “Stay! Go!”

“If I stay right here, I will be swept by this tide into deep wild waters. Can I swim in this? Am I strong enough?” She pulls herself closer to the shore.

“If I walk away, where will I go? I’ve lost my direction. It is just another vastness on the other side of this shore. I could get lost in the wilderness and be wandering forever”

Her cheeks are glistening in the Sun, a broken heart beating inside her chest. It’s been cracked open like a rock that was holding a precious gem. Sitting with the pain she notices a light deep within. Love. Oh how long she’s been searching for this. Crawling through jungles full of poison, bitten many times and yet always finding her own cure. She’s always followed her heart, always on a mission for balance and harmony, for healing of an ancient wound between the male and female.

Feeling defeated she looks around her. This is a familiar place. She has been here before, yet it all looks different now. The shore has been reshaped by the constant ebb and flow of ocean’s waters, weathered by storms that had moved through here so many times. The wilderness beyond the shores had grown thicker and taller.

“Why am I here again? What is this place?

“Why have you summoned me!? her voice shouts at the Sky, the Ocean and the Land.
“What do you want from me!?

Her only answer is a cry of seagulls flying over head in search of an easy catch. She welcomes their brief presence and relaxes a bit. Perhaps life isn’t always all hard work. Warm sand welcomes her tired back as she lays down, letting a soft sigh of relief escape her throat. Suddenly her heart lets go of clenching allowing her whole body to sink into the embrace of the Earth.

“Thank you!” she whispers into the breeze. “Thank you!”

Cradled by the Earth and lulled by the song of Ocean waves she lets Sun rays kiss her whole being inside out. Sinking deeper into this blissful moment she gazes at the diamond inside her wide broken heart. It has always been there. She had known it all along and had protected it so hard. “It is so brilliant” she thinks as new waves of feelings floods her being. Now she’s drenched in love and joy. That’s when she remembers a poem once gifted to her by Water Spirits:

Stand still and flow
Melt and freeze
So you may hear
a soft voice on a breeze.
Rise up and fall
Let the winds blow
One day you’ll know
Which way to go.

Stand still and flow
As the winds blow
Melt or freeze
Soon they’ll turn to breeze
Which way to go
you already know
following your call
as you rise and fall.

Stand still and flow
you always know
a soft voice on a breeze
as you melt or freeze
as you ride and fall
letting the winds blow
following your call
which way you must go.

She lets out a wild cry of her inner beast as she surrenders into the Ebb and Flow of life, merging with the Waters of existence.